Zhakuli Temple

Zhakuli Temple

Zhakuli Temple is a cultural tourism attraction.

Guide Zhakuli Temple, also known as Subashi Temple, is a key cultural relic protection unit of the autonomous region. It is located on the southern foothills of the Querdag Mountain, 23 kilometers northeast of Kuqa County, and is the ruins of a Buddhist temple from the Wei and Jin dynasties. Introduction The temple is divided into eastern and western sections, distributed on both banks of the river leading to the east and west. The Eastern Temple is built against the mountain, with remnants of houses and stupa temples, all constructed from adobe, with some walls reaching over 10 meters in height. Within the site are three tall towers, the northernmost of which stands on the mountainside, offering a view of the entire temple ruins. The Western Temple is square-shaped, with a perimeter of approximately 318 meters and walls about 10 meters high. Inside the walls, there are dense remains of structures, believed to have been the monks' living quarters.

There are several tall towers on the ruins. In the north, there is an area with Buddha caves, where the cave walls are carved with Kucha script and images of Buddhist figures. In the past, copper, iron, pottery, wooden artifacts, murals, clay sculptures, as well as wooden slips and fragments of paper inscribed with ancient ethnic scripts were discovered here.

Aksu City, Xinjiang