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A unique and little-known Buddhist culture once flourished in Central Asia.
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Stepping Back onto the Silk Road
An ambitious retrospective lets us view China’s ancient network of Buddhist caves at Dunhuang through the lenses of pioneering photographers James and Lucy Lo.
When the Monks Met the Muslims
In the popular imagination, Buddhism is synonymous with introspective peace, Islam with violent blind faith. But both conceptions are nothing more than Western fantasy. Revisiting the centuries of Buddhist-Muslim cooperative interaction forces us to rethink our…
Lost and Found on the Silk Road
What an ancient Kushan coin can teach us about Buddhist history and art.
Consider the Source: Origins of the Wild Goose Pagoda
Tourist groups that visit the Terra Cotta Warriors inevitably visit Xian’s other famous landmark, the Wild Goose Pagoda, an icon central to the development of Chinese Buddhism. In this post I will explore why the Wild…
Beautiful Buddhist Silk Road Cave Art (via National Geographic)
via National Geographic: Emerging from the wind-sculptured dunes some 12 miles southeast of Dunhuang is an arc of cliffs that drop more than a hundred feet to a riverbed lined with poplar trees. By the mid-seventh century,…
Xuanzang: A Buddhist Pilgrim on the Silk Road
By Sally Hovey Wriggins
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