How a Tribe of Frontier Warriors Built the Kushan Empire–And Sent the First Buddhist Missionaries to China
Nearly 2,200 years ago, a tribe called the Yuezhi (月氏) from north of the Qilian Mountains on China’s frontiers was pushed out of its homeland by the Xiongnu, a multi-tribal nomad confederation. The Yuezhi fled westward to the upper reaches of the Oxus River basin in Central Asia. As the Indo-Greek kingdoms weakened, they moved […]
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