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位于卡皮萨省的索托拉克寺院是一处位于今阿富汗的古老的寺院。它与一起帕塔瓦地区的卡皮西寺院，40公里以北的喀布尔，这是北部贵霜帝国区域。从这个遗址点可以看到美丽的佛教供养人身着贵霜服饰的雕塑风格。帕塔瓦和索托拉克的艺术手法从肩膀上喷出火来代表佛陀，这是沙拉瓦斯蒂（Sravasti）奇迹，这在贵霜国王的造像中也可以找到。（中国十六国造像中也有类似手法）
Shotorak monastery, at Kuh-i Pahlawan, Kapisa Province, is an ancient monastery located in modern Afghanistan. It was positioned together with Paitava monastery around the city of Kapisa, 40 km north of Kabul, which was the northern capital of the Kushan Empire. Beautiful sculptures of Buddhist donors in Kushan dress are known from this site.
Paitava, with Shorotak, have an artistic usage of representing the Buddha with fire emanating from the shoulders in the miracle of Sravasti, a feature also found on the effigies of Kushan kings on their coinage.
索托拉克寺院是一座小型佛教寺院，里面有大约七个或八个佛塔。主佛塔被一个回廊所包围，并以浅浮雕装饰。发现包括许多粘土佛塔模型和许多片岩雕塑。该遗址可能曾经是Kishan King Kanishka的中国人质的住所。1930年代在该遗址发现的雕塑（雕刻的片岩立像和浅浮雕雕塑）被认为是在阿富汗发现的一些最重要的佛教艺术品。于1930年代后期从索托拉克转移到喀布尔博物馆的燃灯佛(Dipankara)佛像（公元3世纪）于1993年2月从博物馆失窃，至今仍是博物馆藏品中最重要的一件遗物。最近一次报道是在日本一位私人收藏家的手中。资料来源：沃里克·鲍尔（Warwick Ball），阿富汗考古地名词典，1982年，第1期。1088
A small Buddhist monastery complex with some seven or eight stupas. The main stupa was surrounded by a cloistered courtyard, and decorated in figures in bas-relief. Finds included many clay stupa models and many schist sculptures.The site may have been the living quarters of the Kishan King Kanishka's Chinese hostages. Sculptures discovered at the site (carved schist standing figures and bas-relief panel sculptures) during the 1930s are considered some of the most important Buddhist artworks found in Afghanistan. The Buddha Dipankara (3rd c. AD), transferred from Shotorak to the Kabul Museum in the late 1930s, was stolen from the Museum in February 1993 and remains the most important single item still missing from the Museum's collection. It was last reported in the hands of a Japanese private collector. Source: Warwick Ball, Archaeological Gazetteer of Afghanistan, 1982, n. 1088
