Tarim Basin

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• enPR: tärēmʹ, därēmʹ

Tarim Basin

1. (geography) An endorheic basin in China's northwest Xinjiang province occupying an area of about 906,500 km2 (350,000 sq mi).
   • 1975 May 1, James H. Madole, “Forum”, in Green Egg‎, volume VIII, number 70, Council of Earth Religions, ISSN 1066-7385, OCLC 23864810, page 50:

     Since Madame Blavatsky died over 80 years ago we can check many of the claims made in these ancient documents. For example, "THE SECRET DOCTRINE" in its "Proem" makes mention of the buried cities of a lost civilization in the Tarim Basin ("THE SECRET DOCTRINE" was published in 1888, two years before H.P.B.'s death) BUT THESE CITIES WERE ONLY EXCAVATED BY RUSSIAN ARCHAEOLOGISTS IN 1917 PROVING CONCLUSIVELY WHAT WAS TAUGHT TO HER IN TIBET! These people of the Tarim Basin spoke TOCHARIAN, a now extinct Aryan language, as stated by Prof. V. Gordon Childe in his book, "THE ARYANS," published in 1927. Can you call this knowledge of an undiscovered civilization fraudulent?

   • 1999, Barber, Elizabeth Wayland, The Mummies of Ürümchi‎, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, LCCN 98-18958, OCLC 468515927, page 43:

     At Cherchen, the only town of any size in the entire southeastern quadrant of the Tarim Basin (itself an oval 400 by 800 miles in diameter, mostly desert), they learned that locals had discovered an extensive antique cemetery on a plateau above the nearby hamlet of Zaghunluq.

   • 2019 October 4, Chen, Aizhu in Singapore; Sun Yilei in Shanghai, “PetroChina unit strikes high oil, gas flows in deep Tarim well”, in Kenneth Maxwell, editor, Reuters‎, archived from the original on 05 October 2019, Commodities:

     The Tarim basin currently has an annual production capacity of over 2 million tonnes of condensate and 10 bcm of natural gas.

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