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Ptolemy's time.] [Footnote 190: So too in Central Asia Kustana appears to be a learned distortion of the name Khotan, made to give it a meaning in Sanskrit.] [Footnote 191: Gerini states (_Ptolemy_, p. 107) that there are Pali manuscript chronicles of Lamphun apparently going back to 924 A.D.] [Footnote 192: Strictly Sŭkhồthăi.] [Footnote 193: Phongsá va: dan or Vaṃsavâda.
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 Charles Eliot 1896
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It is likely that through the contact Western Tibet had with Khotan, which is well documented, there was also cultural contact between Western Tibet and Iranian cultural areas.
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On July 18, Chinese official media reported that at least four people died in a clash in the city of Khotan.
Henryk Szadziewski: 2011: The Uyghur Human Rights Year in Review Henryk Szadziewski 2012
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The killing of seven alleged Uyghur terrorists and a police officer in a shootout on December 28 in Khotan prefecture ended an appalling year in the region.
Henryk Szadziewski: 2011: The Uyghur Human Rights Year in Review Henryk Szadziewski 2012
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This conclusion could also be applied to two violent attacks that happened in the dusty summer streets of Khotan and Kashgar.
Henryk Szadziewski: 2011: The Uyghur Human Rights Year in Review Henryk Szadziewski 2012
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The World Uyghur Congress stated the shooting took place not at a police station, but in Khotan's main bazaar, when more than 100 local Uyghurs peacefully demonstrated against illegal seizures of land and the forcible disappearances of relatives by Chinese security forces during unrest in 2009.
Henryk Szadziewski: 2011: The Uyghur Human Rights Year in Review Henryk Szadziewski 2012
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Whereas the official version of the December shootout in Khotan prefecture brought out questions regarding Chinese government accusations of a concerted Uyghur terror network, the suggestion that the Uyghurs involved could have been refugees highlighted a problem escalating throughout the year.
Henryk Szadziewski: 2011: The Uyghur Human Rights Year in Review Henryk Szadziewski 2012
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He said these roads leading up to Mansaroar Kashghar, Khotan, Turtuk-Khapnu, Kargil-Skardu and Lasa could be reopened once the atmosphere of understanding and friendship was created for which the PDP was striving for.
BJP condemns PDP���s suggestion links through Leh towards Centre Asia & China 2009
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Until at least 920, the Tibetan language was used for commercial and diplomatic purposes in the Gansu Corridor and along the Silk Route as far as Khotan, since it was the only common language of the various peoples there.
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The western branch of the Qarakhanids, which had been centered in Kashgar, attacked Khotan in 982 in their drive to gain control of the southern Tarim Basin branch of the Silk Route.
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"These documents are all bilingual. Living in the modern era, we have grown accustomed to multilingual documents of the European Community and other international organizations. There is something extraordinary, though, in seeing these bilingual grain tallies. In the eighth century, the reach of the Chinese state extended down to the lowest level; even the smallest payment of grain was recorded in Khotanese, the language of the local people, and in Chinese, the language of the rulers. Similarly, all the officials in the government had both Chinese and Khotanese titles. The Khotanese bureaucracy employed clerks who could translate Khotanese documents into Chinese; some Chinese-language documents refer to petitions in Khotanese form the local people that were translated so that Chinese officials could understand them."
--Valerie Hansen, The Silk Road: A New History (Oxford and New York: Oxford UP, 2012), 214
January 4, 2017