Yangtze Travel
Khotan is a compact fusion of a few overly-broad Chinese streets and the warrenof the Uighur old town, where dense throngs gather in the streetsBeijing Walking Tourfor Khotan'slively Sunday market. To the south the Kunlun Shan are at their most toothy, andinclude the 7282m Mt Muztag, but sight of even its immense bulk is hidden by the dusty airHistoryStein was cheered by his first arrival in KhotanFrom there [the firstTibet information Khotani villagel onwards there lay an unbrokensuccession of gardens, hamlets and carefully cultivated fields on bothsides.
The road itself is flanked by shady avenues of poplars and willowsfor almost its whole length. Autumn had just turned the leaves yellowand red on most of the trees, Places to See In Beijingand after the monotonous khaki of thedesert marches this display of colour was doubly cheerful.
Sir M.A.Stein, Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan, Lhasa tour
1903Khotan was once a major Buddhist centre, and the desert around is dotted with ruined andnow near-featureless cities, former capitals of the kingdom of Khotan (or Yuteen/Yutian), andmostly inaccessible. Faxi5n, here in about AD 401, "Yangtze">http://www.chinatoursaffordable.com/yangtze-river-travel"">Yangtze Travel"described a purely Buddhist population,with monks amounting to 'several myriads', all receiving their food from a common store.
Each house had a substantial tope (dagoba) in front, great wall pictures and Faxian in stayed in a monastery of 3000monks, one of several in the vicinity.
He was present for a two-week-long Buddhist festival,including a vast procession of images, at the feet of which the king abased himself.
The road itself is flanked by shady avenues of poplars and willowsfor almost its whole length. Autumn had just turned the leaves yellowand red on most of the trees, Places to See In Beijingand after the monotonous khaki of thedesert marches this display of colour was doubly cheerful.
Sir M.A.Stein, Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan, Lhasa tour
1903Khotan was once a major Buddhist centre, and the desert around is dotted with ruined andnow near-featureless cities, former capitals of the kingdom of Khotan (or Yuteen/Yutian), andmostly inaccessible. Faxi5n, here in about AD 401, "Yangtze">http://www.chinatoursaffordable.com/yangtze-river-travel"">Yangtze Travel"described a purely Buddhist population,with monks amounting to 'several myriads', all receiving their food from a common store.
Each house had a substantial tope (dagoba) in front, great wall pictures and Faxian in stayed in a monastery of 3000monks, one of several in the vicinity.
He was present for a two-week-long Buddhist festival,including a vast procession of images, at the feet of which the king abased himself.
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