In 710, a monk called Baolong ("Treasure Prosperity") from Tokharistan (N Afghanistan) commissioned a Buddhist niche at Longmen near the eastern capital of the Tang empire. In 2014, the epitaph of a Tokharistanian minister's grandson called Luo Hehan (9th c) was found in Shaanxi.
In 710, a monk called Baolong ("Treasure Prosperity") from Tokharistan (N Afghanistan) commissioned a Buddhist niche at Longmen near the eastern capital of the Tang empire. In 2014, the epitaph of a Tokharistanian minister's grandson called Luo Hehan (9th c) was found in Shaanxi.
In 710, a monk called Baolong ("Treasure Prosperity") from Tokharistan (N Afghanistan) commissioned a Buddhist niche at Longmen near the eastern capital of the Tang empire. In 2014, the epitaph of a Tokharistanian minister's grandson called Luo Hehan (9th c) was found in Shaanxi.
Chinese characters on the cover of Luo's epitaph look unusual to me; many radicals seem to be rendered like Kharosthi letters, an ancient Indian script used in Gandhara before the 3rd c AD. It'd be fascinating if this were a way of indicating the deceased's Central Asian origin.
Chinese characters on the cover of Luo's epitaph look unusual to me; many radicals seem to be rendered like Kharosthi letters, an ancient Indian script used in Gandhara before the 3rd c AD. It'd be fascinating if this were a way of indicating the deceased's Central Asian origin.
Chinese characters on the cover of Luo's epitaph look unusual to me; many radicals seem to be rendered like Kharosthi letters, an ancient Indian script used in Gandhara before the 3rd c AD. It'd be fascinating if this were a way of indicating the deceased's Central Asian origin.
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