Rowland, Benjamin. The art of Central Asia. New York, Crown. 1975: 75. The exacavations at Balalik Tepe (...) revealed the remains of a small fortified manor that was the seat of a princely Hephthalite clan.
MUZIO, CIRO LO. Remarks on the Paintings from the Buddhist Monastery of Fayaz Tepe (Southern Uzbekistan). Bulletin of the Asia Institute. 2008, 22: 199. ISSN 0890-4464. JSTOR 24049243.
Kurbanov, Aydogdy. THE HEPHTHALITES: ICONOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS(PDF). Tyragetia. 2014: 317–334 [2021-11-10]. （原始内容存档(PDF)于2021-08-30）. The Tokharistan school was represented by Balalyk-tepe, Adzhina-tepe, Kafyr-kala; the northern Tokharistan school was found in the Buddhist Temples of Kuva and in Jeti-su
Azarpay, Guitty; Belenickij, Aleksandr M.; Maršak, Boris Il'ič; Dresden, Mark J. Sogdian Painting: The Pictorial Epic in Oriental Art. University of California Press. 1981: 92 [2021-11-10]. ISBN 978-0-520-03765-6. （原始内容存档于2021-11-10）. Besides the obvious thematic difference between the Balalyk-tepe banquet scene and the religiously inspired Buddhist cave paintings from Tukharistan, the two are closely connected by style and iconography.
"Azarpay, Guitty; Belenickij, Aleksandr M.; Maršak, Boris Il'ič; Dresden, Mark J. Sogdian Painting: The Pictorial Epic in Oriental Art. University of California Press. : 93 [2021-11-10]. ISBN 978-0-520-03765-6. （原始内容存档于2021-11-10）. A striking parallel to the Balalyk tepe murals is offered by files of donors represented on the right and left walls of the vault of the 34 m Buddha at Bamiyan. (...) The remarkable overall stylistic and iconographic resemblance between the two sets of paintings would argue for their association with the artistic tradition of the Hephthalite ruling classes of Tukharestan that survived the downfall of Hephthalite power in A.D. 577
