A special cultural event highlighting the heritage and modern vitality of Dunhuang was held at the Chinese Embassy in Canada ...

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Foreword / Timothy P. Whalen and Thomas Gaehtgens -- The Dunhuang cave temples at Mogao / Neville Agnew and Marcia Reed -- The Buddhist cave temples of Dunhuang: art, spirituality, cultural heritage / ...

The flying Apsaras dance across the heavens; caravan bells echo along ancient routes. Dunhuang, a pivotal hub on the ancient Silk Road, served as a crossroads where diverse civilizations converged, ...

One of the world's great museums—some 500 caves at Dunhuang filled with Buddhist painting and sculpture—were created over 1000 years, between the 4th and 14th centuries, on the Silk Road in northwest ...

The so-called "Library Cave" is located in the Dunhuang cave complexes in China and was a sealed treasury containing ancient manuscripts in 17 languages from the previous millennia. After visiting the ...

"Cave Temples of Dunhuang," an important new exhibition at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, offers many highlights. In a very rare instance, the British Library has lent a section of the Diamond Sutra ...

In 1989, the Getty Conservation Institute made a commitment to help with the preservation of the hundreds of Buddhist temples built into cliff-side caves between the 4th and 14th centuries near ...