Khisht Tepe — Wikipedia

Khisht-tepe, or Khisht-tepa (“Brick hill” in Persian) is a Buddhist archaeological site located in a mountainous area on the left bank of the Obimazar-Yakshu river (tributary of the Pyandj river), in Eastern Tajikistan near the village of Khovaling. The site has the remains of a Buddhist monastery, dated to the 7th-8th centuries CE. The monastery has a square plan with a central courtyard, and small stupas inside several rooms. Clay tablets with Buddhist texts were also found. Khisht-tepe is part of a number of Buddhist monasteries of the 7th-8th centuries such as Kafir-kala, Kala-i...