Kalai Kafirnigan

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Kalai Kafirnigan, also Kala-i Kafirnigan was a Buddhist temple in the region of Tokharistan (Classical Bactria), dated to the 7th-8th century CE. Buddhism in Tokharistan is said to have enjoyed a revival under the Western Turks (known as Tokhara Yabghus in Tokharistan). Several monasteries of Tokharistan dated to the 7th-8th centuries display beautiful Buddhist works of art, such as Kalai Kafirnigan, Ajina Tepe, Khisht Tepe or Kafyr Kala, around which Turkic nobility and populations followed Hinayana Buddhism.{{cite book |last1=Baumer |first1=Christoph |title=History of Central Asia, The: 4-volume set |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-1-83860-868-2 |pages=203-204 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DhiWDwAAQBAJ&pg=RA1-PA203 |language=en}}

File:Mural from Kalai Kafirnigan, Museum of National Antiquities, Dushanbe, Tajikistan.jpg|Buddhist mural from Kalai Kafirnigan, Museum of National Antiquities, Dushanbe, Tajikistan. 7th-early 8th century.{{cite journal |last1=Litvinskij |first1=B. A. |title=Kalai-Kafirnigan Problems in the Religion and Art of Early Mediaeval Tokharistan |journal=East and West |date=1981 |volume=31 |issue=1/4 |pages=35–66 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/29756581.pdf |issn=0012-8376}}

Kalai Kafirnigan woman.jpg|Female devotee in Kalai Kafirnigan. 7th-early 8th century.

File:Kalai Kafirnigan mural of a male figure.jpg|Mural of a male figure