{"id":16945,"date":"2023-06-10T16:04:30","date_gmt":"2023-06-10T16:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visitsilkroad.org\/staging\/?post_type=destination&#038;p=16945"},"modified":"2024-06-06T01:42:04","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T17:42:04","slug":"ajina-teppa-buddhist-monastery","status":"publish","type":"destination","link":"https:\/\/visitsilkroad.org\/destination\/ajina-teppa-buddhist-monastery\/","title":{"rendered":"Ajina-Teppa Buddhist Monastery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/api.mapbox.com\/styles\/v1\/visitsilkroad\/clvl3cel701dq01phev10aq9m\/static\/pin-s+ff0000(68.85439889999999,37.7979938)\/68.85439889999999,37.7979938,12.5,0\/725x300?access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoidmlzaXRzaWxrcm9hZCIsImEiOiJjbHV2YWEzbDMwMWRvMmpvYXd1NzRkNDcwIn0.iA4-BEz1MfIrSQRk3uxVkw\">\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Image by Danny Roper, CC BY-SA 3.0 <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0<\/a>, via Wikimedia Commons<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Getting There<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The monastery can be reached from Dushanbe by car, taxi, minibus and bicycle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What to Expect<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The monastic complex is an opportunity to learn about construction technology of the early Middle Ages. It is also a lesson about the history of&nbsp; Buddhism in Central Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">History<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Ajina-Teppa is a complex of residential and religious premises from a Buddhist monastery. In 1966 archeologists found a 12m high Buddha statue at the complex. The statue was taken to the Tajik Academy of Sciences. In 2001 it was moved to the National Museum of Antiquities in Dushanbe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12km east of the town of Bokhtar, the Ajina-Teppa Buddhist Monastery rises from a series of  shapeless mounds and pits, the excavations of which uncovered an ancient Buddhist monastic complex from the middle of the 7th to the middle of the 8th centuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":16948,"parent":0,"template":"","destination_type":[17],"location":[51,26],"site_type":[164],"featured":[175],"class_list":["post-16945","destination","type-destination","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","destination_type-site","location-khatlon","location-tajikistan","site_type-archaeological-ancient-monuments","featured-featured"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitsilkroad.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/destination\/16945"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitsilkroad.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/destination"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitsilkroad.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/destination"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/visitsilkroad.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/destination\/16945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20136,"href":"https:\/\/visitsilkroad.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/destination\/16945\/revisions\/20136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitsilkroad.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitsilkroad.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"destination_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitsilkroad.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/destination_type?post=16945"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitsilkroad.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=16945"},{"taxonomy":"site_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitsilkroad.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/site_type?post=16945"},{"taxonomy":"featured","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitsilkroad.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured?post=16945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}