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"Dandan Oilik is a deserted historical town and desert oasis in the Taklamakan Desert of China. Dandan Oilik was an important (though small) centre of local Buddhism and trade on the Silk Road. It's name means 'Houses of / with Ivory' and has been the site of a small number of significant archeological finds.
Having been many abandoned hundreds of years ago, the oasis was found and lost to shifting desert sands several times. Most recently, a German expedition led by Christoph Baumer found the city based on the accounts of previous explorers such as Sir Aurel Stein, and uncovered relics dating to the 7th and 8th Century. They also marked its GPS position, and the city is now being studied by Chinese archeologists."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dandan_Oilik
Input by: tmciolek, 24 Jan 2009.
It comes from Dandan-Uiliq aka Dandan Oilik, a Khotanese site, and while I don't know the date, Dandan-Uiliq was permanently abandoned (probably due to reduced water supply and invading Muslims) at the end of the eighth century,[…]
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2006_11_19_paleojudaica_archive.html
a temple site in Dandan Oilik, near Niya in Xinjiang. …
http://www.chinaheritagenewsletter.org/briefs.php?searchterm=007_arch_cons_her.inc&issue=007
Niya Ancient City www.media.tsinghua.edu.cn/zhuzuo/europe.html
(same as) Jingjue - Long: 83.60000 Lat:38.274510
Coords Est. from Anonymous-4 1991 & Geeland & Twitchett 1974:102
Minfeng, China Page
Other names: Min-feng-ch'eng,Ming-feng,Nija,Min-feng-she-chih-chü,Min-feng-she-chih-chu,Nya,Nia,Min-feng-hsien,Ni-ya-ch'eng,Niya Bazar,Niya
World:China:Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu
Lat 37.0667 Long 82.7667
http://www.fallingrain.com/world/CH/13/Minfeng.html
Final data (and their sources)
Lat/Long coordinates' accuracy:
The monastery in question is assumed to be situated actually no farther than 20 km from the point defined by the coordinates below.
General location of the Dandan Oilik monastery, CN.
lat=37.0667 long=82.7667
Mapping & images: Falling Rain Genomics (http://maps.fallingrain.com), 2009.
Google Map link:
Final data - explanatory notes
1. Monastery's name
2. Monastery's modern country & province
- China:Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu
3. Monastery's alternative/historical names
4. Monastery's lat/long coordinates
- Approx Lat 37.0667 Long 82.7667 http://www.fallingrain.com/world/CH/13/Minfeng.html
5. Other known nearby Buddhist monasteries
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6. Modern name of the known nearest city, town, or village
7. The settlement's alternative/historical names
- Min-feng-ch'eng - http://www.fallingrain.com/world/CH/13/Minfeng.html
- Min-feng-hsien - http://www.fallingrain.com/world/CH/13/Minfeng.html
- Min-feng-she-chih-chu - http://www.fallingrain.com/world/CH/13/Minfeng.html
- Min-feng-she-chih-chü - http://www.fallingrain.com/world/CH/13/Minfeng.html
- Ming-feng - http://www.fallingrain.com/world/CH/13/Minfeng.html
- Ni-ya-ch'eng - http://www.fallingrain.com/world/CH/13/Minfeng.html
- Nia - http://www.fallingrain.com/world/CH/13/Minfeng.html
- Nija - http://www.fallingrain.com/world/CH/13/Minfeng.html
- Niya - http://www.fallingrain.com/world/CH/13/Minfeng.html
- Niya Bazar - http://www.fallingrain.com/world/CH/13/Minfeng.html
- Nya - http://www.fallingrain.com/world/CH/13/Minfeng.html
8. The settlement's coordinates
- Exactly Lat 37.0667 Long 82.7667 http://www.fallingrain.com/world/CH/13/Minfeng.html
9. Monastery's major Buddhist tradition
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10. Monastery's Buddhist sub-tradition
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11. Date-early
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12. Date-intermediate
- 600 - 700 CE
13. Date-late
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14. Details of contacts with other monasteries
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15. Type of evidence regarding the monastery
- archaeological, art historical
16. Additional notes
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17. Corrections & addenda to this page were kindly provided by
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