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0451 On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks : vol.1
中央アジア踏査記 : vol.1
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life. Residing on the northern slopes of the mountains dur-
ing the summer, their rulers could keep up for a long time
what was pleasant in their traditional ways of life, while
drawing upon the settled population of the fertile Turfan
oases for the material and intellectual resources with which
to strengthen their power and to enjoy the pleasure of its
possession.

The period of Uigur rule over Turfan lasted until the
Mongol conquest early in the thirteenth century and in
cultural respects did not undergo essential change even
later. The record of a Chinese imperial envoy, Wang
Yen-tê, who visited the Uigur king in A.D. 982 has left an
interesting account of the flourishing conditions prevailing
in Turfan, the abundance of Buddhist convents, the presence
of Manichaean priests from Persia, as well as of the intelli-
gent and capable character of the Uigurs. Yet he found old
pastoral traditions still favoured by the rulers who annually
proceeded to the northern slopes of the T'ien-shan for their
residence. Though the Uigur chiefs under Mongol domina-
tion turned to Islam, yet Buddhism was still prevalent in
Turfan as late as A.D. 1420, when Sultan Shah Rukh's
embassy on its way to China passed through it.

This long-continued practice of Buddhist cult, together
with the protection from violent cataclysms which Turfan
enjoyed under undisturbed Uigur rule, had allowed many
remains of pre-Muhammadan civilization, including objects
of cult, literature and art, to survive there comparatively
well cared for to within four or five centuries of our own
time. At the same time, owing to the special geographical
conditions affecting irrigation in the Turfan basin, there
has been no appreciable change within historical times