Qigexing Buddhist Temple Ruins
Yanqi Hui Autonomous County, China
The Shorchuk or Shikshin Temple (Uyghur, Xorqu, simplified, traditional, pinyin: Qīgèxīng Fósì, lit. 'Seven-Stars Buddhist Temple') is a ruined compound of Buddhist sites located about 25–30 km southwest of the town of Karasahr, Yanqi Hui Autonomous County, Xinjiang, China. The site was a major religious center along the northern route of the Silk Road in the second half of the first millennium CE. Another name for the site is Ming-oi ("The Thousand Houses") in Turkic.
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