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- noun Plural form of
Tocharian .
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There, they also became known as the Tocharians and adopted Sarvastivadin form of Hinayana Buddhism.
Historical Sketch of Buddhism and Islam in East Turkistan 1994
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There, they also became known as the Tocharians and adopted Sarvastivadin form of Hinayana Buddhism.
Historical Sketch of Buddhism and Islam in East Turkistan 1994
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In the second century BCE, one group of the Yuezhi, later known as the Tocharians, had migrated to the west and settled in Bactria.
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The Tocharians were the descendents of the Yuezhi, a Caucasian people who spoke an ancient western Indo-European language and represented the easternnmost migration of the Caucasian race.
Historical Sketch of Buddhism and Islam in East Turkistan 1994
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The Tocharians were the descendents of the Yuezhi, a Caucasian people who spoke an ancient western Indo-European language and represented the easternnmost migration of the Caucasian race.
Historical Sketch of Buddhism and Islam in East Turkistan 1994
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Due to this difference in languages, it is disputed whether or not these Tocharians were related to the descendents of the Yuezhi, also kown as "Tocharians", who established thriving civilizations in Kucha and Turfan in East Turkistan in the second century CE.
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Due to this difference in languages, it is disputed whether or not these Tocharians were related to the descendents of the Yuezhi, also kown as "Tocharians", who established thriving civilizations in Kucha and Turfan in East Turkistan in the second century CE.
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There is nothing "iconic" about anything in the show, no connections with famous personages and often very little information about entire societies, such as the Tocharians, who lived at the easternmost limits of where Indo-European languages - the root of tongues as diverse as Russian, English and Hindi - have been spoken.
Following controversy, mummies at Penn Museum remain objects of mystery 2011
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In short, the Tocharians were Celts and preliminary genetic analysis has confirmed the link.
Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: The House with Many Doors (or, at the Caucasus, Hang a Right!) Ph.D. Athena Andreadis 2011
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The outliers were the Tocharians, a Silk Road culture that occupied the Tarim basin of Inner Mongolia from 2000 BCE to 1000 CE before being displaced and subsumed by the Uyghur.
Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: The House with Many Doors (or, at the Caucasus, Hang a Right!) Ph.D. Athena Andreadis 2011
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