Kucha 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.
Kizilgaha Beacon Tower, built by a Chinese garrison during the Han dynasty, located north of Kucha
Kuchean monks and lay devotees circa 300 CE, in the paintings of the Cave of the Hippocampi (Cave 118), Kizil Caves.
The "Peacock Cave", in the Kizil Caves near Kucha, built circa 400 CE.
Kucha ambassador at the Chinese court of Emperor Yuan of Liang in his capital Jingzhou in 516–520 CE, with explanatory text. Portraits of Periodical Offering of Liang, 11th-century Song copy.
Kumārajīva was a Buddhist monk, scholar, missionary and translator. from the Kingdom of Kucha. Kumārajīva is seen as one of the greatest translators of Chinese Buddhism and a pivotal figure in the dev
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…Jinshu, Book 97. Culture flourished, and Indian Sanskrit scriptures were being translated by the Kuchean monk and translator Kumarajiva (344–413 CE), himself the son of a man from Kashmir and a Kuchean mother. The southern kingdoms of Shanshan and the Jushi Kingdom (now Turfan and Jiaohe…
The Statue of Kumārajīva in front of the Kizil Caves in Kuqa County, Xinjiang, China
Liao dynasty statue of the Eleven Headed Guanyin in Dule Temple in Tianjin, China.
White Horse Pagoda, Dunhuang, commemorating Kumarajiva's white horse which carried the scriptures to China, c. 384 CE
Section of the Diamond Sutra, a handwritten copy by Zhang Jizhi, based on Kumarajiva's translation from Sanskrit to Chinese