The Kumtura Thousand Buddha Caves (Kumutula Qianfodong); also Qumtura; is a Buddhist cave temple site in the Autonomous Region of Xinjiang; China. The site is located some 25 km west of Kucha; Kuqa County; on the ancient Silk Road.

112 cave temples survive; dating from the fifth to the eleventh centuries. Damaged during the Islamic conquests and subsequently by occasional habitation after abandonment of the site; Kumtura was visited by a number of the early foreign expeditions to Chinese Central Asia; including the 1902 Otani expedition; Oldenburg; and Le Coq. The last detached several wall paintings and took them back to Berlin; where they are now held at the Museum fur Asiatische Kunst.

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