Khotan
Britishnoun
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“If the funding drops, all of that momentum will be lost,” said Khotan Harmon, senior program officer for the city of Austin.
From Washington Times • Aug. 26, 2023
When foreign archaeologists found an ancient town, they defined it by longitude and latitude, and then tried to match its site with one of Xuanzang’s vanished cities: Khotan, Kucha, Agni.
From New York Times • May 11, 2020
Samir turned back to the crowd and nodded at a straight-faced horseman, who said, “I heard about the Rogue Legion, and those guys in Khotan really hated the saddles you sold them.”
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
The Tibetan annals also mention several persecutions of Buddhism in Khotan as a result of which the monks fled to Tibet and Bruzha.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Eliot, Charles, Sir
Arriving at Khotan, the traveller witnessed a great Buddhist festival; here, as in Yarkand, Afghanistan and other parts thoroughly Islamized before the close of the middle ages, Fa-Hien shows us Buddhism still prevailing.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various
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