Shule was a Buddhist kingdom in Serindia as famous as Yutian and Qiuci, but very little research has been made on the Buddhist Archaeology there yet. At the beginning of the 20th century, the French scholar P. Pelliot discovered several pieces of images depicting Buddhist stories in Toqqouz-sarai, a Buddhist monastery site in Tumshuq, Xinjiang; and in the 1990s, another piece was unearthed there. These images are most informative to the study on the spread of the Buddhist stories along the Silk Road. The present article presents a discussion on the style and the religionary meaning of them, and to a greater extent, attempts to reveal the character of the Buddhism in Shule.
