Gaochang is an oasis city on the northern rim of the Taklamakan Desert. The ancient Uigur capital was founded in the 1st century. Buddhism was brought

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Gaochang is an oasis city on the northern rim of the Taklamakan Desert. The ancient Uigur capital was founded in the 1st century. Buddhism was brought from the west, and was established by monasteries built there in the 4th and 5th centuries.

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