Gokturks

7 06, 2017

Who was Xuanzang? A Buddhist scholar of medieval China

By |2018-04-18T09:54:15-07:00June 7th, 2017|Central Asia, China, India, Religion|Comments Off on Who was Xuanzang? A Buddhist scholar of medieval China

Travels of the Buddhist traveller Xuanzang (T'ang Dynasty, 630 AD) Xuanzang was a great Chinese scholar who lived in the 600s AD, under the T'ang dynasty. He was a Buddhist, [...]

31 05, 2017

Who were the Gokturks? Central Asian History

By |2019-07-08T11:16:17-07:00May 31st, 2017|Central Asia, History|Comments Off on Who were the Gokturks? Central Asian History

The Gokturks: A Gokturk coin, about 576-600 AD (Kyrgyzstan museum) (compare to Sassanian and Byzantine coins of the same time) Bumin Qaghan beats the Rouran About 550 AD, Bumin Qaghan [...]

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