• enPR:kōtänʹ,kōʹtänʹ

Khotan

1. Alternative form ofHotan
   • 1904,M. A. Stein, “A Journey of Geographical and Archaeological Exploration in Chinese Turkestan”, inAnnual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution 1903‎^[1],Washington, D.C.:Government Printing Office,→OCLC,pages762–763:

     Among the ancient sites in the Taklamakan Desert which are frequented byKhotan "treasure seekers," and which the prospecting parties sent out by me had visited, none seemed to offer better opportunities for systematic excavations than the one known to them as Dandan-Uilik.

   • 1957, Bo Gyllensvärd,T'ANG GOLD AND SILVER (Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities Bulletin)‎^[2], volume29,Göteborg: Elanders Boktryckeri, page21:

     It is possible, then, to point out a few types of objects which came into China before T'ang together with Buddhism via Central or Western Asian contacts. The same is also the case with the ornamentation. An account of the pre-T'ang Buddhist sculpture offers an excellent opportunity to study the change of the lotus motif in the fifth and sixth centuries. Particularly in the latter part of the sixth century the lotus descriptions are executed in a luxuriant way and often quite naturalistic. These lotus representations are easy to trace to their Indian origin, whereas it is rather difficult to follow the versions of the lotus ornamentation in the Central Asian city-states. We might assume that the artists fromKhotan played an important role also here.

   • 1973 February 18, “Taiwan's contemplative religion”, inFree China Weekly‎^[3], volume XIV, number 6,Taipei,page 2:

     Buddhism's authentic history in China begins in 65 A.C.^{[sic – meaningA.D.]} whenMing Ti (second Emperor of the East Han dynasty) sent a mission to "the western regions" to find out more about a great religion that originated in India but took root in China. The emperor's emissaries returned fromKhotan in six years with Buddhist monks, classics (sutras) and ikons.

   • 1979,Jan Myrdal, translated by Ann Henning,Carpets from China, Xinjiang & Tibet‎^[4],Pantheon Books, page139:

     TheKhotan rug factory, Hotan Rayonluk Gilam Karahanisi, is situated outside the town ofKhotan, in Lop county four kilometers east on the bank of the Yurunkash River.

   • 2004,Barry Holstun Lopez,Resistance‎^[5] (Fiction),New York:Vintage Books, published2005,→ISBN,→LCCN,→OCLC,→OL,page105:

     A week into the trip Korbel told me I was riding well, no trouble at all for him, so we would detour a little to the east, toward an oasis called Tongguzbasti. We would soon pick up a very old route, he told me, one that ran between theKhotan, which we had by then gained, and another riverbed, the Keriya. Along the way we would see something.

   • 2021,The Buddha’s Words and Their Interpretations‎^[6], Shin Buddhist Comprehensive Research Institute,→ISBN,→OCLC, archived fromthe original on24 October 2021, page137:

     The waters of two rivers, the Yurungkash or Baiyu he白玉河 (White Jade River) and the Karakash or Heiyu he黑玉河 (Black Jade River), were indispensable for establishing human culture inKhotan. These two rivers unite near Koxlax (about 200 km north ofKhotan) and together form theKhotan River.

   • For more quotations using this term, seeCitations:Khotan.
2. The historical region corresponding to modernHotan.
3. The historicalKingdom of Khotan.

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• “Khotan”, inMerriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Khotan” inTheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2025.

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