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DUNHUANG Caves of the Singing Sands Buddhist Art from the Silk Road text by Roderick Whitfield; photographs by Seigo Otsuka Textile & Art Publications, 1996 Please click on each of the illustrations on this page to view larger-scale images and extracts from the text View of the Mogao cliff face - Introduction THE CAVE TEMPLES The Mogao cave temples near the town of Dunhuang, at the edge of the ...

Silk Road DunHuang Grottoes Thousand Buddha Cave - DunHuang is the name of the city. It is located between Urumgi and Yumen. It was an oasis irrigated by the Tang River and began to serve as an important way staion on the main trade route between China and Central Asia since the first century B.C. when Emporor Han Wu-ti started to expand the empire westwards. This was an area where many races ...

DUNHUANG ART Salient Features of Dunhuang Cave Art Appendix 1 Chinese Characteristics of the Cave Architecture Indian Flying Figures to the Chinese Flying Fairies Feminization of the Bodhisattvas Portraits of the Donors in Dunhuang Caves: Special Class of Portrait Painting in Chinese Art Illustrations of the Universe of Mahayana Sutras Dunhuang Murals: A Treasury of Music and Dance Dunhuang Cave ...

Dunhuang Caves In China Dunhuang and the Cave of Manuscripts Dunhuang has 492 caves, with 45, 000 square meters of frescos, 2, 415 painted statues and five wooden-structured caves. The Mogao Grottoes contain priceless paintings, sculptures, some 50, 000 Buddhist scriptures, historical documents, textiles, and other relics that first stunned the world in the early 1900s. Dunhuang is an oasis town ...