Khotanese

From this piece of evidence, added to our previous analysis, it would seem that the disappearance of Buddhism among the Khotanese was the result of the decimation of the population in the twenty-four year siege and subsequent crushing of the survivors’ rebellion, rather than by a forceful conversion of the Buddhists to Islam.

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A trade route ran from Khotan to Tibet via Kashmir and therefore, as A.H. Francke asserts (“The Tibetan Alphabet,” Epigraphia India, vol. 11), it is not unreasonable that Thonmi Sambhota met and studied with a Khotanese tutor in Kashmir.

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This is inferred from the Tibetan and Khotanese scripts employing similar manners for indicating initial and long vowels and for placing vowels in the order of their alphabets.

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The first syllable in his Tibetan name, however, could indicate this Khotanese origin, since “Li” is the Tibetan name for “Khotan.”

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Khotanese move against Kashgar and the Qarakhanid counterstep against Khotan must also be evaluated within that context

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Moreover, they may well have called for a jihad, interpreting the Khotanese support of the native Kashgari uprising as

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Not too much later, we have the Khotanese and Sogdians, and no one denies that these Iranian peoples were active in the East Asian Heartland (EAH).

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The xenophobic faction in court blamed the foreign monk for the epidemic and expelled him from Tibet, as they had done to the Han Chinese and Khotanese monks in Tibet when a similar epidemic had erupted in 739.

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The Tibetans cut off all contact between the Khotanese royalty and the Tang court.

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Prior to this, there had only been Buddhist temples in Tibet and a few minor monastic facilities built for foreign monks, such as the Khotanese and Han Chinese refugees of 720.

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