[nickcarraway]

Ping

[2banana]

Yes - Afghanistan was Buddhist for over 1,000 years. Then, islamic armies conquered the place and either put them to the sword or forced them to convert (after the women had been raped, of course).

[tkathy]

How long before the death squads of the death cult destroy this?

[DoughtyOne]

...another ping for Islamic tolerance...

Cool discovery...

[lilylangtree]

What's left of the taliban must be gnashing their teeth.

[LeoWindhorse]

thank you thank you thank you Japan

[Ciexyz]

btt

[Proud_USA_Republican]

The shiite thugs running Iran would have it destroyed in a second.

They revel in destroying anything of the persian empire that was dated before the death cult arrived.

[SunkenCiv]

Very cool. Thanks Nick.

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[blam]

Tocharians

"Tocharian donors", possibly the "Knights with Long Swords" of Chinese accounts, depicted with light hair and light eye color and dressed in Sassanian style. 6th century CE fresco, Qizil, Tarim Basin. Graphical analysis reveals that the third donor from left is performing a Buddhist vitarka mudra. These frescoes are associated with annotations in Tocharian and Sanskrit made by their painters.

Blue-eyed Central Asian (Tocharian?) and East-Asian Buddhist monks, Bezaklik, Eastern Tarim Basin, 9th-10th century.