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Kucha or Kuche (also: Kuçar, Kuchar; Uyghur: كۇچار, Кучар; Chinese: 龜茲; pinyin: Qiūcí, Chinese: 庫車; pinyin: Kùchē; Sanskrit: 𑀓𑀽𑀘𑀻𑀦, romanized: Kūcīna) [1] was an ancient Buddhist kingdom located on the branch of the Silk Road that ran along the northern edge of what is now the Taklamakan Desert in the Tarim Basin and south of the Muzat River.
Kucha mint. Dually dated AH 1281 and RY 2 (AD 1864). Obverse legend: Said Ghazi Rashidin Khan. Ithneen in Arabic. Reverse: Zarb dar al-sultanat Kucha, 1281 in Arabic. The city is located at the southern periphery of the Tian Shan range, the northern portion of the Tarim Basin, and the centre of the autonomous region. It occupies part of the ...
History. The Simsim Caves stand as the largest Buddhist cave temple complex in the eastern territory of ancient Qiuci (also known as Kucha), situated approximately 45 kilometers northeast of Kucha in China's Xinjiang region. The name "Simsim," derived from the Uygur language spoken predominantly in the region during the caves' creation ...
When he visited Kucha in 630 CE, the Chinese monk Xuanzang received the favours of Suvarnadeva, the son and successor of Suvarna-puspa, and Hinayana king of Kucha. [ 213 ] Xuanzang described in many details the characteristics of Kucha (屈支国 qūzhīguó , in "大唐西域记" "Tang Dynasty Account of the Western Regions"), and probably ...
The 1994 national census reported a total population for this woreda of 102,598 of whom 51,657 were men and 50,941 were women; 1,931 or 1.88% of its population were urban dwellers. The largest ethnic group reported in Kucha was the Gamo; all other ethnic groups made up 1.48% of the population.
Kucha ambassador are known to have visited the Chinese court of Emperor Yuan of Liang in his capital Jingzhou in 516–520 AD, at or around the same time as the Hepthalite embassies there. An ambassador from Kucha is illustrated in Portraits of Periodical Offering of Liang, painted in 526–539 AD, an 11th-century Song copy of which as remained.
King Suvarnapuspa of Kucha (ruled 600-625 CE), Cave 69, Kizil Caves. Kucha, a kingdom in the Tarim Basin, was a vassal of the Western Turkic Khaganate. [1] Under the reign of Emperor Gaozu, the king Suvarnapushpa (Chinese: 苏伐勃𫘝 Sufaboshi) provided the Tang court with tribute in 618. In 630, Suvarnapushpa's successor Suvarnadeva ...
The Kizilgaha Caves (simplified Chinese: 克孜尔尕哈石窟; traditional Chinese: 克孜爾尕哈石窟; pinyin: Kèzīěrgǎhā shíkū) consist in a Buddhist Temple inside a complex of caves in the area of Kucha, Xinjiang, China. The paintings in the cave go back to the 5th century CE. [1]