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0398 Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1
チベットとトルキスタン : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000231
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far as I know, expressed himself on that point, it
has seemed to me that the facial types shown in
certain statues found by him, and the mental type
disclosed by some of the recovered writings, point to
a race not Mongol as having constituted the superior
and clerical element of the Khotanese inhabitants
as early as the beginning of our era. Yet, on the
other hand, little has been found to cause the temple
ornamentation or religious literature to be accepted
as proper expressions of the general genius of the
people.
Religious antiquities, coming from an era just
following the acceptance of a new faith by a con-
verted people, must not be lightly adopted as evi-
dence in the establishment of racial affinities. The
mere susceptibility to Aryan influences, as shown by
the various "finds" in the buried cities, hints of a
certain docility and suppleness which may mark any
people dwelling in the dense and enervating condi-
tions of oasis life; while the absence of original work
in any developed art suggests affinity with the Mon-
gol who has ever been extremely indifferent to all
that may be known to us as classic influence. The
few facts available to us for reconstructing this pe-
riod in Turkestan seem entirely consistent with the
theory that the invaders of Tartar-Mongol blood
were gradually absorbed by their more numerous and
more civilised victims, while the resulting composite
race became, for a time, at least, of tougher fibre,
but not insensible to the artistic and religious im-
pulses reaching it from the south-west or west, and
which, even before the coming of the Yue-che, had
already influenced the Tarim civilisation.