Sash monastery, (in) Toshkent, Toshkent Shahri, UZ

Raw data

Sash vihara, Tashkent - Foltz (1999:46-47)

Toshkent, Uzbekistan Page
Other names: Tashkent,Tashkend
World:Uzbekistan:Toshkent Shahri
Lat 41.3167 Long 69.2500
http://www.fallingrain.com/world/UZ/13/Toshkent.html

Input by: tmciolek, Apr 25, 2009

Final data (and their sources)

Last updated: 08 Jul 2014

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.

Location of Sash monastery, UZ.

General location of the Sash monastery, UZ.
lat=41.3167 long=69.2500
Mapping & images: Falling Rain Genomics (http://www.fallingrain.com), 2009.


Google Map link:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=41.3167+69.2500+(Approx.%20loc.%20of%20the%20Sash%20monastery,%20UZ)&ll=41.3167,69.2500&spn=05.0,05.0&t=k&hl=en


Final data - explanatory notes

1. Monastery's name

  • Sash monastery - Foltz (1999:46-47)

2. Monastery's modern country & province

  • Uzbekistan:Toshkent Shahri

3. Monastery's alternative/historical names

  • [missing data]

4. Monastery's lat/long coordinates


5. Other known nearby Buddhist monasteries

  • [missing data]

6. Modern name of the known nearest city, town, or village


7. The settlement's alternative/historical names


8. The settlement's coordinates


9. Monastery's major Buddhist tradition

  • Mahayana?

10. Monastery's Buddhist sub-tradition

  • [missing data]

11. Date-early

  • [missing data]

12. Date-intermediate

  • Sometime during the Kushan period [30 CE till 375 CE tmc], a monk named Sutralanka, of Puskaravati monastery travelled to Sash vihara to decorate it. - Foltz (1999:46-47)

0200-32p dated-x


13. Date-late

  • [missing data]

14. Details of contacts with other monasteries

  • Sometime during the Kushan period, a monk named Sutralanka, of Puskaravati (= Charsadda, near Peshawar, PK) travelled to Sash vihara to decorate it. - Foltz (1999:46-47)

15. Type of evidence regarding the monastery

  • [missing data].

16. Additional notes

  • [missing data] (incl. details of the size of the monastic population)

17. Corrections & addenda to this page were kindly provided by

  • [missing data]

18. Known monks and nuns associated with this monastery


19. Available Printed Literature

  • [bibliographical details of the Book/Article 1]
  • [bibliographical details of the Book/Article 2]
  • [bibliographical details of the Book/Article 3]

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