> central asian buddhist monk teaching a chinese monk. bezeklik caves, 9th10th century; although albert von le coq (1913) assumed the blue-eyed, red-haired monk was a tocharian,[1] modern scholarship has identified similar caucasoid figures of the same cave temple (no. 9) as ethnic sogdians,[2] an eastern iranian people who inhabited turfan as an ethnic minority community during the phases of tang chinese (7th8th century) and uyghur rule (9th13th century).[3] >   lik_caves   aguptaka
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