The Kingdom of Khotan was an ancient Buddhist Saka kingdom located on the branch of the Silk Road that ran along the southern edge of the Taklamakan Desert in the Tarim Basin (modern-day Xinjiang, China). The ancient capital was originally sited …

Hotan (also known by other names) is a major oasis town in southwestern Xinjiang, an autonomous region in Northwestern China. The city proper of Hotan broke off from the larger Hotan County to become an administrative area in its own right in August 1984. It is the seat of Hotan Prefecture.

Nov 25, 2020 · Khotan (also spelled Hotian, or Hetian) is the name of a major oasis and city on the ancient Silk Road, a trade network that connected Europe, India, and China across the vast desert regions of central Asia beginning more than 2,000 years ago. Khotan was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Yutian, beginning in the 3rd century BCE.

Buddhism in Khotan comprised bodies of Buddhist religious doctrine and institutions characteristic of the Iranic Kingdom of Khotan as well as much of Western China and Tajikistan. It was the state religion of the Kingdom of Khotan until its collapse in 1000. [1] .

Khotan (C. Yutian 于闐) was an Indo-European oasis kingdom at the southern edge of the Taklamakhan Desert in Central Asia, along the northern slope of the Kunlun Mountains, "which served as a major center of Buddhism in Central Asia and an important conduit for the transmission of Buddhism from India to China."

Mar 21, 2022 · History has largely forgotten about the ancient Buddhist kingdom of Khotan, a land said to have been formed by the draining of a mountain-rimmed lake.

Khotan is an oasis on the southern rim of the Taklamakan Desert in Xinjiang, China. Viewed as an entrepôt along the “Silk Road,” Khotan is famed as a source of high-quality jade (in China) and musk (in Iran).

Jan 1, 2001 · KHOTAN, town (lat 37°06′ N, long 79°56′ E) and major oasis of the southern Tarim Basin in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China, historically an important kingdom with an Iranian-speaking population.

The Kingdom of Khotan (Tib. ལི་ཡུལ་, Wyl. li yul ) is an ancient Buddhist kingdom that was located on the branch of the Silk Road that ran along the southern edge of the Taklamakan Desert in the Tarim basin―the area lies in present day Xinjiang, China.

Both cotton and wool production have been major products of Khotan since antiquity, while Khotan was also a major supplier of jade to China (the ‘Jade Road’ between Khotan and China is considerably older than the Silk Road). Khotan also occupied a remarkably strategic position.