Kashgar

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Kashgar, old town.
Silk Road routes from India into Central Asia, leading towards China; Kashgar was a key city on this route. Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Kashgar or Kashi (Chinese: 喀什) is a city in the Tarim Basin region of southern Xinjiang, China. It is one of the westernmost cities of China, located near the country's border with Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.

For over 2,000 years, Kashgar was a strategically important oasis on the Silk Road between China, the Middle East, and Europe.

The oasis cities in Central Asia "served as crucial stations in the transmission of Buddhism from India to China."[1]

Notes

  1. ↑ Robert E. Buswell Jr., Donald S. Lopez Jr., The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism (Princeton: 2014), s.v. Turfan

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