Indo-European (Tocharian & Sogdian) detail of Praņidhi scenes no. 1-11, 14, & 15 in Temple no. 9, Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves near Turfan, Xinjiang 9th C. fresco

You can find the sources for these images in my other post, link at bottom. This is just an independent post to highlight the details of Tocharian and Sogdians in the Pranidhi artworks. All of the original artworks were destroyed by the Allies in WW2 and only survive due to German photography. I'm going to add the Celtic tag on this one, I'm kind of on the fence about adding it to my Tocharian posts generally but from what I've read the Tocharian language was closest to Celtic.













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