{"id":786,"date":"2010-02-03T22:38:31","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T05:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/?p=786"},"modified":"2010-02-15T23:37:51","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T06:37:51","slug":"tajik-buddhist-monasteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2010\/02\/03\/tajik-buddhist-monasteries\/","title":{"rendered":"Tajik Buddhist Monasteries"},"content":{"rendered":"

Probably the best-known Buddhist monastic archeological site in what is now Tajikistan is at Ajina Tepa<\/a>, which has been diligently excavated and published<\/a> by Litvinsky and others.\u00a0 It’s a fascinating site.<\/p>\n

Lesser known, and less impressive in size and sophistication if not in location than Ajina Tepa, is the stupa at Vrang, on the Afghan border in the Pamirs. (It’s at 37\u00b0 0′ N 72\u00b0 22′ E.)<\/p>\n

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The stupa seems to be in very good condition and there are supposedly
\ncaves that served as cells for monks surrounding it. There’s also a
\nBuddha fooprint still extant.<\/p>\n

15 Feb 2010 update<\/strong>: another photograph<\/a> of the same site<\/p>\n

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Religious congregations
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Religious congregations (lay and clerical) are distinguished from other orders by their type of vow; members of religious congregations take simple, not solemn, vows.\u00a0 The distinction between the two types of vows is pretty obscure to me; fortunately, the Catholic Encyclopedia<\/em> of 1913, incorporated into Wikipedia<\/em>, has details<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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