Khotanとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: kōtänʹ, kōʹtänʹ

固有名詞

Khotan

1. Alternative form of Hotan
   • 1957, Bo Gyllensvärd, T'ANG GOLD AND SILVER (Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities Bulletin)‎^[1], volume 29, Göteborg: Elanders Boktryckeri, page 21:

     It is possible, then, to point out a few types of objects which came into China before T'ang together with Buddhism via Central or Western Asian contacts. The same is also the case with the ornamentation. An account of the pre-T'ang Buddhist sculpture offers an excellent opportunity to study the change of the lotus motif in the fifth and sixth centuries. Particularly in the latter part of the sixth century the lotus descriptions are executed in a luxuriant way and often quite naturalistic. These lotus representations are easy to trace to their Indian origin, whereas it is rather difficult to follow the versions of the lotus ornamentation in the Central Asian city-states. We might assume that the artists from Khotan played an important role also here.

   • 1973 February 18, “Taiwan's contemplative religion”, in Free China Weekly‎^[2], volume XIV, number 6, Taipei, page 2:

     Buddhism's authentic history in China begins in 65 A.C.^{[sic, meaning A.D.]} when Ming Ti (second Emperor of the East Han dynasty) sent a mission to "the western regions" to find out more about a great religion that originated in India but took root in China. The emperor's emissaries returned from Khotan in six years with Buddhist monks, classics (sutras) and ikons.

   • 1979, Jan Myrdal, Ann Henning, transl., Carpets from China, Xinjiang & Tibet‎^[3], Pantheon Books, page 139:

     The Khotan rug factory, Hotan Rayonluk Gilam Karahanisi, is situated outside the town of Khotan, in Lop county four kilometers east on the bank of the Yurunkash River.

   • 2004, Barry Holstun Lopez, Resistance‎^[4] (Fiction), New York: Vintage Books, published 2005, →ISBN, LCCN 2003065986, OCLC 61184671, OL 28740290M, page 105:

     A week into the trip Korbel told me I was riding well, no trouble at all for him, so we would detour a little to the east, toward an oasis called Tongguzbasti. We would soon pick up a very old route, he told me, one that ran between the Khotan, which we had by then gained, and another riverbed, the Keriya. Along the way we would see something.