Buddhisme di Asia Tengah

Agama Buddha di Asia Tengah mengacu kepada bentuk agama Buddha yang ada di Asia Tengah, yang secara historis sangat lazim di sepanjang Jalur Sutra. Sejarah agama Buddha di Asia Tengah terkait erat dengan penyebaran agama Buddha di sepanjang Jalur Sutra selama milenium pertama Era Umum.

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^ Ethnic Sogdians have been identified as the Caucasian figures seen in the same cave temple (No. 9). See the following source: Gasparini, Mariachiara. "A Mathematic Expression of Art: Sino-Iranian and Uighur Textile Interactions and the Turfan Textile Collection in Berlin," in Rudolf G. Wagner and Monica Juneja (eds), Transcultural Studies, Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg, No 1 (2014), pp 134-163. ISSN 2191-6411. See also endnote #32. (Accessed 3 September 2016.)
^ For information on the Sogdians, an Eastern Iranian people, and their inhabitation of Turfan as an ethnic minority community during the phases of Tang Chinese (7th-8th century) and Uyghur rule (9th-13th century), see Hansen, Valerie (2012), The Silk Road: A New History, Oxford University Press, p. 98, ISBN 978-0-19-993921-3.

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