克孜尔石窟以壁画闻名,而佛像很少,留存至今的克孜尔佛像多为五六世纪时期的,明显采取了笈多造像风格。以装饰性衣纹著称的笈多佛像,兴起于新德里东南的秣菟罗地区,然后向西北传播到中亚,产生了巴米扬等重要造像,再往前影响了新疆地区的佛像艺术。当是之时,僧侣往来于中印之间的路线,多取西线,出西域向西,经巴米扬折变向东途经犍陀罗故地,进入印度本土。这种交通路线与造像风格的传播之路是吻合的。然而,许多学者受到西方学者强调犍陀罗的影响,认为新疆佛像的风格特征多来自犍陀罗,事实上,以克孜尔等地为例的造像,明显与犍陀罗无关,由此引出了如何重新评价犍陀罗影响中国的重要问题。 Kizil Grotto is famous for its murals, while Buddha statues are rare. Most of the Kizil Buddha statues preserved in this period were mostly of the fifth and sixth centuries. The famous Buddha statue in decorative dress rises in the Miluo area in southeast of New Delhi and then spreads northwest to Central Asia. It produces important statues such as Bamyan and further affects the art of Buddha statues in Xinjiang. When this was the route the monks traveled to and between China and India, they took the western line and went westward to the west. After passing through Bamyan, they shifted eastward to the land of Gandhara and entered India. This traffic route and the idol style of communication is consistent. However, many scholars have been stressed by Western scholars Gandhara effect, that the style characteristics of Xinjiang Buddha comes mostly from Gandhara, in fact, in Kizil and other places as the example of the image, obviously has nothing to do with Gandhara, which leads to How to reappraise Gandhara’s important issues affecting China?