Citations:Khotan


 * It is possible, then, to point out a few types of objects which came into China before T'ang together with Buddhism via Central or Western Asian contacts. The same is also the case with the ornamentation. An account of the pre-T'ang Buddhist sculpture offers an excellent opportunity to study the change of the lotus motif in the fifth and sixth centuries. Particularly in the latter part of the sixth century the lotus descriptions are executed in a luxuriant way and often quite naturalistic. These lotus representations are easy to trace to their Indian origin, whereas it is rather difficult to follow the versions of the lotus ornamentation in the Central Asian city-states. We might assume that the artists from Khotan played an important role also here.
 * Buddhism's authentic history in China begins in 65 A.C.A.D. [sic] when (second Emperor of the East Han dynasty) sent a mission to "the western regions" to find out more about a great religion that originated in India but took root in China. The emperor's emissaries returned from Khotan in six years with Buddhist monks, classics (sutras) and ikons.
 * The Khotan rug factory, Hotan Rayonluk Gilam Karahanisi, is situated outside the town of Khotan, in Lop county four kilometers east on the bank of the Yurunkash River.
 * Buddhism's authentic history in China begins in 65 A.C.A.D. [sic] when (second Emperor of the East Han dynasty) sent a mission to "the western regions" to find out more about a great religion that originated in India but took root in China. The emperor's emissaries returned from Khotan in six years with Buddhist monks, classics (sutras) and ikons.
 * The Khotan rug factory, Hotan Rayonluk Gilam Karahanisi, is situated outside the town of Khotan, in Lop county four kilometers east on the bank of the Yurunkash River.
 * The Khotan rug factory, Hotan Rayonluk Gilam Karahanisi, is situated outside the town of Khotan, in Lop county four kilometers east on the bank of the Yurunkash River.
 * The Khotan rug factory, Hotan Rayonluk Gilam Karahanisi, is situated outside the town of Khotan, in Lop county four kilometers east on the bank of the Yurunkash River.