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Buddhist influence on Turkic peoples

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"From VI century the Buddhism had considerable impact on Turkic peoples. In Semirechye and the Southern Kazakhstan archeologists found temples, monasteries, chapels, and also figurines and steles with images of Buddhist characters and scenes. Similar monuments are also found in the Talas River valley near Shymkent, and also in Zhambylsky area – in Tekturmas and Balasagun. Near ruins of the known medieval city of Isfidzhab (Sayram) the underground Buddhist monastery is found.

After in X century Islam was declared by the state religion of the state Karakhanidov, the Buddhism started losing the positions. However a certain influence of the Buddhism remained and in the next centuries. In the XVI-XVIII centuries the Buddhism began to extend in Kazakhstan in connection with resettlements and attacks джунгаров. Monasteries of an era of the Dzhungarsky khanate are found in Semirechye and steppe regions of the Central Kazakhstan. It is known also that at the beginning of the XIX century in the natural boundary of Medeo near Almaty the wooden Buddhist monastery was constructed.

Archaeological monuments are images of several Buddhas and Buddhist texts on rocks in the natural boundary Tamgaly-Tas in vicinities of Almaty. Time of creation of images is defined in the wide range – from XII to XVII-XVIII centuries.

In 1996 in Uralsk the Buddhist center was founded. Following the results of a re-registration of 2012 in Kazakhstan works 2 Buddhist religious associations in Almaty and in the West Kazakhstan region."