Vitarka <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudra" class="extiw" title="en:Mudra">Mudra</a>. 8th century wall painting at Bezeklik, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarim_Basin" class="extiw" title="en:Tarim Basin">Tarim Basin</a>. Detail of <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Central_Asian_Buddhist_Monks.jpeg" title="File:Central Asian Buddhist Monks.jpeg">Image:Central Asian Buddhist Monks.jpeg</a>
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Transferred from <span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org">en.wikipedia</a></span> to Commons. Original source *<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://dsr.nii.ac.jp/toyobunko/LFc-42/"><i>Chotscho: Facsimile Reproduction of Important Findings of the First Royal Prussian Expedition to Turfan in East Turkistan</i></a>, Berlin, 1913. A catalogue of the findings of the Second German Turfan Expedition (1904–1905) led by Albert von Le Coq, containing colour reproductions of the murals, which were destroyed in WW2. (National Institute of Informatics – Digital Silk Road Project Digital Archive of Toyo Bunko Rare Books)