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Aurel Stein And The Mogao Caves

The Silk Road, the Eurasian trade route linking China with the Mediterranean seashore was used not only for the purpose of commerce, but it also was the meeting point of the large civilizations of the East and West. From the 2nd century B. C. for more than a thousand years, silk,...

The Ancient Silk Road: What and Where It Was

2016-02-11
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1. The Silk Road was never a single road. It was a web of paths travelled by caravans of horses and camels. 2. The Silk Road began around 120 B.C., when Xi&rsq...

Marco Polo Trail on Silk Road China

2016-02-03
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Marco Polo (1254–1324) was an Italian merchant traveler from the Republic of Venice whose travels are recorded in Livres des merveilles du monde, a book w...

Dunhuang art -- Liu Sahe and scenes from the story of the miraculous image of Mount Yugu, ink and colours on silk (fragment)

This is a fragment of a much larger painting (another fragment is in the Musée Guimet, Paris) showing Shakyamuni preaching on the Vulture Peak. It shows the monk Liu Sahe and the construction of the famous Buddha image in several scenes in the background....

Dunhuang art -- Avalokiteshvara as Saviour from Perils, ink and colours on silk

Avalokiteshvara, the bodhisattva of compassion, is show in his six-armed form seated on a lotus behind an altar. He can be identified by the small figure of the Buddha Amitabha seated in his headdress. His two upper arms hold the sun and the moon, his two...

Dunhuang art -- Kshitigarbha as Lord of the Six Ways, ink and colours on silk

The bodhisattva Kshitigarbha is shown wearing a hood and seated on a lotus behind an altar accompanied by two worshipping bodhisattvas. On the three lines on each side of his halo are depicted 'The Six Ways of Life': gods, animals and hell (top left) and...

Dunhuang art -- Lokapala, ink and colours on silk (fragment)

This huge fragment - now mounted as a hanging scroll - was once part of a splendid composition which was at least two metres high. All that remains of the lokapala (guardian figure) is the half-open mouth, the shoulders, upper body and a hand holding an a...

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The Way
Humans model themselves on earth,
Earth on heaven,
Heaven on the Way,
And the way on that which is naturally so.
-- Laozi, excerpted from Daodejing #251...

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