Long before the Arabs came here with their new religion of Islam, Buddhist monks lived in Central Asia, the conduit through which Buddhism travelled from India to the East.

• 早在阿拉伯人带著他们新的伊斯兰信仰来此处之前，佛教的僧侣就已经居住在中亚，成了佛教由印度传到东方的通道。