page_title: Rawak Stupa
hierarchical_section_title: Rawak Stupa
caption_attribution_description: English: Rawak Stupa from above southwest wall — along the Silk Road in Xinjiang, West China. November 2008. 中文: 热瓦克佛寺的佛塔遗址，位于中国新疆和阗。
context_page_description: Rawak is a Buddhist stupa located on the southern rim of the Taklamakan Desert in China, along the famous trade route known as the Silk Road in the first millennium Kingdom of Khotan. Around the stupa there are other smaller structures which were originally decorated with a large number of colossal statues. The courtyard of the temple was surrounded by a wall, which contained terracotta relieves and some wall-paintings. The stupa and other structures form a three-dimensional mandala. The site is now about 40 km north of the modern city of Hotan in Xinjiang Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China.
context_section_description: Rawak is a Buddhist stupa located on the southern rim of the Taklamakan Desert in China, along the famous trade route known as the Silk Road in the first millennium Kingdom of Khotan. Around the stupa there are other smaller structures which were originally decorated with a large number of colossal statues. The courtyard of the temple was surrounded by a wall, which contained terracotta relieves and some wall-paintings. The stupa and other structures form a three-dimensional mandala.  The site is now about 40 km north of the modern city of Hotan (Chinese: 和田) in Xinjiang Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China.
caption: Rawak Stupa from above southwest wall. November 2008.
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