Rawak Stupa
Rawak is a Buddhist stupa located on the southern rim of the Taklamakan Desert in Xinjiang, China, along the famous trade route known as the Silk Road in the first millennium Kingdom of Khotan.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Shrine
- Description: Buddhist stupa located on the southern rim of the Taklamakan Desert in China
- Also known as: “Rewake Buddhist Temple Ruins”
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 1.0.
Rawak Stupa
- Categories: archaeological site and religion
- Location: Hotan Prefecture, Xinjiang, Northwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Portuguese—“Rawak Stupa” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “热瓦克佛寺遗址”
- Finnish: “Rawak Vihara”
- German: “Rawak Vihara”
- German: “Rawak”
- German: “Rewake Fosi yizhi”
- German: “Ruinen der buddhistischen Klosterstadt Rawak”
- Indonesian: “Stupa Rawak”
- Portuguese: “Estupa Rawak”
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