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Cave temples of Mogao
art and history on the silk road
By Whitfield, Roderick & Whitfield, Susan & Agnew, Neville
- ISBN
- 978-0-89236-585-2
- Publisher
- Los Angeles : Getty Conservation Institute and the J. Getty Museum, c2000.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on January 1, 2001
For 1000 years, from 366 C.E. to 1357 C.E., Buddhists in the isolated desert oasis of Dunhuang (or Tun-huang) dug a series of caves and decorated them with a vibrant array of wall frescoes and sculptures. On the western frontier of the powerful Chinese empire, Dunhuang was an important trading post on the Silk Road, the route by which Buddhism moved from India into Tibet and China. Called in Chinese Mogaoku ("Peerless Caves"), these places of veneration have been pres...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
