Dedicated to a new age of restoration
1 year, 4 months ago

Dedicated to a new age of restoration

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Li Bo, a veteran restorer of the Dunhuang Academy, leads a colleague, Li Lingzhi, in examining murals in one of the Yulin Caves at Guazhou county near Dunhuang, Gansu province. Located in the far west of Northwest China's Gansu province, the city of Dunhuang and its neighboring areas — home to the Mogao Caves and other historical monuments witnessing the apex of the ancient, prosperous Silk Road — just unrolled a saga testifying to communication among civilizations across Eurasia. While characters on the ancient murals refer to Buddha for the truth of life and the universe — a frequent theme of the murals — Li's pilgrimage to enlightenment is reflected in every moment of him sitting in front of the wall and reviving the revelations in the murals with meticulous hand movements, bit by bit, from dawn to dusk, day after day. In front of a 10th-century mural featuring a mass audience listening to the Buddha at the Yulin Caves in Guazhou county, around two hours' drive from the Mogao Caves, Li mimicked the facial expressions of the characters when introducing his routine work.

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A Journey Through the Mogao Caves: Exploring the Vision of a Master Painter
2 months, 1 week ago

A Journey Through the Mogao Caves: Exploring the Vision of a Master Painter

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An exhibition showcasing the works of artist Chang Shuhong, who played a significant role in preserving and promoting the Mogao Caves, is currently on display at the Zhejiang Provincial Museum in Hangzhou. Visitors can explore the artist's journey through the caves, with his paintings reflecting the beauty and cultural significance of the place.

Bringing Dunhuang's murals to life
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Bringing Dunhuang's murals to life

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Artist and choreographer responsible for devising dance tradition based on Mogao's images are focus of touring exhibition, Chen Nan reports. In a grand hall at Beijing's Chinese Traditional Culture Museum, a captivating scene unfolds as 93-year-old artist Chang Shana and 89-year-old choreographer Gao Jinrong walk into the room holding hands. Their bond has been forged by their shared vision of …

Video: Bringing Dunhuang's murals to life
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Video: Bringing Dunhuang's murals to life

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In a grand hall at Beijing's Chinese Traditional Culture Museum, a captivating scene unfolds as 93-year-old artist Chang Shana and 89-year-old choreographer Gao Jinrong walk into the room holding hands. Their bond has been forged by their shared vision of breathing life into Dunhuang's ancient murals through dance, ensuring that their beauty and significance continues to captivate and inspire. Home …

Video: Bringing Dunhuang's murals to life
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Video: Bringing Dunhuang's murals to life

China Daily  

In a grand hall at Beijing's Chinese Traditional Culture Museum, a captivating scene unfolds as 93-year-old artist Chang Shana and 89-year-old choreographer Gao Jinrong walk into the room holding hands. Their bond has been forged by their shared vision of breathing life into Dunhuang's ancient murals through dance, ensuring that their beauty and significance continues to captivate and inspire. Home …

Cultural relics from Dunhuang featured in Shanghai exhibition
4 months ago

Cultural relics from Dunhuang featured in Shanghai exhibition

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Lovers of Dunhuang art and culture dressed as the characters in the Mogao Caves frescoes. Cultural relics recognized as the national treasure of China from Dunhuang of Gansu province will be featured at the upcoming exhibition at China Art Museum, Shanghai. The Great Art of Dunhuang, taking place at the China Art Museum, Shanghai, also known as the Shanghai Art …

Cultural relics from Dunhuang featured in Shanghai exhibition
4 months ago

Cultural relics from Dunhuang featured in Shanghai exhibition

China Daily  

Lovers of Dunhuang art and culture dressed as the characters in the Mogao Caves frescoes. Cultural relics recognized as the national treasure of China from Dunhuang of Gansu province will be featured at the upcoming exhibition at China Art Museum, Shanghai. The Great Art of Dunhuang, taking place at the China Art Museum, Shanghai, also known as the Shanghai Art …

Career dedicated to sharing glory of caves
7 months ago

Career dedicated to sharing glory of caves

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A 93-year-old recalls spending her childhood with her father protecting the Mogao grottoes to highlight their legacy with the world, Lin Qi reports. The young girl endured harsh living conditions in the desert while working with her father to copy the murals and Buddhist statues in the Mogao Caves, and forged a lifelong love of Dunhuang that has lasted for …

Career dedicated to sharing glory of caves
7 months ago

Career dedicated to sharing glory of caves

China Daily  

A 93-year-old recalls spending her childhood with her father protecting the Mogao grottoes to highlight their legacy with the world, Lin Qi reports. The young girl endured harsh living conditions in the desert while working with her father to copy the murals and Buddhist statues in the Mogao Caves, and forged a lifelong love of Dunhuang that has lasted for …

Career dedicated to sharing glory of caves
7 months ago

Career dedicated to sharing glory of caves

China Daily  

A 93-year-old recalls spending her childhood with her father protecting the Mogao grottoes to highlight their legacy with the world, Lin Qi reports. The young girl endured harsh living conditions in the desert while working with her father to copy the murals and Buddhist statues in the Mogao Caves, and forged a lifelong love of Dunhuang that has lasted for …

Career dedicated to sharing glory of caves
7 months ago

Career dedicated to sharing glory of caves

China Daily  

By Lin Qi | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2024-05-24 07:25 A 93-year-old recalls spending her childhood with her father protecting the Mogao grottoes to highlight their legacy with the world, Lin Qi reports. The young girl endured harsh living conditions in the desert while working with her father to copy the murals and Buddhist statues in the Mogao Caves, and …

Career dedicated to sharing glory of caves
7 months ago

Career dedicated to sharing glory of caves

China Daily  

A 93-year-old recalls spending her childhood with her father protecting the Mogao grottoes to highlight their legacy with the world, Lin Qi reports. The young girl endured harsh living conditions in the desert while working with her father to copy the murals and Buddhist statues in the Mogao Caves, and forged a lifelong love of Dunhuang that has lasted for …

Dunhuang Academy's protection team work to ensure relics not lost to sands of time
9 months ago

Dunhuang Academy's protection team work to ensure relics not lost to sands of time

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Su Bomin discusses preservation work on a Buddhist statue at the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, Gansu province. The Dunhuang Academy's cultural relics protection team was honored with the title of National Outstanding Engineering Team early this year, China's highest honor in the field of engineering. Su Bomin, the director of the Dunhuang Academy and head of the cultural relics protection …

Dunhuang Academy's protection team work to ensure relics not lost to sands of time
9 months ago

Dunhuang Academy's protection team work to ensure relics not lost to sands of time

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Visitors peruse paintings and scripture scrolls at Dunhuang Art Gallery, which is operated by the academy, in Lanzhou, Gansu province, in April. This restoration directly prompted the introduction of the Chinese Cultural Relics and Historical Sites Protection Guidelines, providing a set of ideas and methods for the protection of China's cultural relics. On May 1, 2016, Digital Dunhuang was officially …

Dunhuang Academy's protection team work to ensure relics not lost to sands of time
9 months ago

Dunhuang Academy's protection team work to ensure relics not lost to sands of time

China Daily  

Su Bomin discusses preservation work on a Buddhist statue at the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, Gansu province. The Dunhuang Academy's cultural relics protection team was honored with the title of National Outstanding Engineering Team early this year, China's highest honor in the field of engineering. Su Bomin, the director of the Dunhuang Academy and head of the cultural relics protection …

Dunhuang Academy's protection team work to ensure relics not lost to sands of time
9 months ago

Dunhuang Academy's protection team work to ensure relics not lost to sands of time

China Daily  

Su Bomin discusses preservation work on a Buddhist statue at the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, Gansu province. The Dunhuang Academy's cultural relics protection team was honored with the title of National Outstanding Engineering Team early this year, China's highest honor in the field of engineering. Su Bomin, the director of the Dunhuang Academy and head of the cultural relics protection …

Dunhuang Academy's protection team work to ensure relics not lost to sands of time
9 months ago

Dunhuang Academy's protection team work to ensure relics not lost to sands of time

China Daily  

Su Bomin discusses preservation work on a Buddhist statue at the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, Gansu province. The Dunhuang Academy's cultural relics protection team was honored with the title of National Outstanding Engineering Team early this year, China's highest honor in the field of engineering. Su Bomin, the director of the Dunhuang Academy and head of the cultural relics protection …

Calendar celebrates Dunhuang and Year of Dragon
1 year ago

Calendar celebrates Dunhuang and Year of Dragon

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The Dunhuang Calendar 2024 The Dunhuang Calendar 2024, which highlights UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site Mogao Caves in Dunhuang, Gansu province, was recently published by the Dunhuang Academy and Beijing-based CITIC Press Group. The calendar shows 309 murals from the Sixteen Kingdoms period to the Yuan Dynasty, with captions explaining the content. Dunhuang has many murals with patterns of dragons, …

Calendar celebrates Dunhuang and Year of Dragon
1 year ago

Calendar celebrates Dunhuang and Year of Dragon

China Daily  

The Dunhuang Calendar 2024 The Dunhuang Calendar 2024, which highlights UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site Mogao Caves in Dunhuang, Gansu province, was recently published by the Dunhuang Academy and Beijing-based CITIC Press Group. The calendar shows 309 murals from the Sixteen Kingdoms period to the Yuan Dynasty, with captions explaining the content. Dunhuang has many murals with patterns of dragons, …

Restorer's passion shows in his work
1 year, 1 month ago

Restorer's passion shows in his work

China Daily  

The Master of Dunhuang, a documentary franchise about those dedicated to the cultural protection and heritage of the Mogao Caves in Dunhuang, Gansu province, features Yang Tao, a veteran grotto restorer. Documentary's second season shines an intriguing light on those who work in Mogao Caves, Xu Fan reports. Yang Tao, a seasoned grotto restorer who has worked in Dunhuang for …

Restorer's passion shows in his work
1 year, 1 month ago

Restorer's passion shows in his work

China Daily  

The Master of Dunhuang, a documentary franchise about those dedicated to the cultural protection and heritage of the Mogao Caves in Dunhuang, Gansu province, features Yang Tao, a veteran grotto restorer. Documentary's second season shines an intriguing light on those who work in Mogao Caves, Xu Fan reports. Yang Tao, a seasoned grotto restorer who has worked in Dunhuang for …

Dedicated to a new age of restoration
1 year, 4 months ago

Dedicated to a new age of restoration

China Daily  

Li Bo, a veteran restorer of the Dunhuang Academy, leads a colleague, Li Lingzhi, in examining murals in one of the Yulin Caves at Guazhou county near Dunhuang, Gansu province. Located in the far west of Northwest China's Gansu province, the city of Dunhuang and its neighboring areas — home to the Mogao Caves and other historical monuments witnessing the …

Dedicated to a new age of restoration
1 year, 4 months ago

Dedicated to a new age of restoration

China Daily  

In a photo on display at the academy, taken in the early 2000s, Li Bo works with his father Li Yunhe, the academy's first full-time cultural heritage restorer, who has been dedicated to the cause since 1956. WANG KAIHAO/CHINA DAILY When the restorers find some parts of murals missing or fading away, they will never repaint to create a "perfect" …

Dedicated to a new age of restoration
1 year, 4 months ago

Dedicated to a new age of restoration

China Daily  

Earlier this month, a restorer from the Dunhuang Academy works on murals of Cave 55 of Mogao, dating back to the 10th century. WANG KAIHAO/CHINA DAILY At the academy, the conservation team with members of higher education backgrounds in the natural sciences, including chemistry, geology, microbiology and so on, is devoted to digitalization and detailed analysis in labs to draft …

Dedicated to a new age of restoration
1 year, 4 months ago

Dedicated to a new age of restoration

China Daily  

Li Bo, a veteran restorer of the Dunhuang Academy, leads a colleague, Li Lingzhi, in examining murals in one of the Yulin Caves at Guazhou county near Dunhuang, Gansu province. Located in the far west of Northwest China's Gansu province, the city of Dunhuang and its neighboring areas — home to the Mogao Caves and other historical monuments witnessing the …

Dedicated to a new age of restoration
1 year, 4 months ago

Dedicated to a new age of restoration

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Li Bo at the Mogao Caves. JIANG DONG/CHINA DAILY Refreshed squad In his teenage years, Li Bo often wondered why it seemed his predecessors never took days off despite adverse working and living conditions. Li Bo's career has witnessed and benefited from the academy's evolution, from rescuing cultural heritage, to scientific and preventive conservation, making progress in both research and …

Dedicated to a new age of restoration
1 year, 4 months ago

Dedicated to a new age of restoration

China Daily  

In a photo on display at the academy, taken in the early 2000s, Li Bo works with his father Li Yunhe, the academy's first full-time cultural heritage restorer, who has been dedicated to the cause since 1956. WANG KAIHAO/CHINA DAILY When the restorers find some parts of murals missing or fading away, they will never repaint to create a "perfect" …

Dedicated to a new age of restoration
1 year, 4 months ago

Dedicated to a new age of restoration

China Daily  

Li Bo, a veteran restorer of the Dunhuang Academy, leads a colleague, Li Lingzhi, in examining murals in one of the Yulin Caves at Guazhou county near Dunhuang, Gansu province. Located in the far west of Northwest China's Gansu province, the city of Dunhuang and its neighboring areas — home to the Mogao Caves and other historical monuments witnessing the …

Dedicated to a new age of restoration
1 year, 4 months ago

Dedicated to a new age of restoration

China Daily  

Earlier this month, a restorer from the Dunhuang Academy works on murals of Cave 55 of Mogao, dating back to the 10th century. WANG KAIHAO/CHINA DAILY At the academy, the conservation team with members of higher education backgrounds in the natural sciences, including chemistry, geology, microbiology and so on, is devoted to digitalization and detailed analysis in labs to draft …

Photo exhibition hopes to raise awareness on Mogao Caves
1 year, 4 months ago

Photo exhibition hopes to raise awareness on Mogao Caves

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A painted sculpture at Cave 45 of Mogao Caves, Dunhuang, Gansu province. Photographer Wu Jian has been focusing his lens on Mogao Caves, the UNESCO World Heritage Site, in Dunhuang, Northwest China's Gansu province, for over four decades. He said at the exhibition's opening ceremony that it's a display of part of his works taken at more than 40 cultural …

Photo exhibition hopes to raise awareness on Mogao Caves
1 year, 4 months ago

Photo exhibition hopes to raise awareness on Mogao Caves

China Daily  

A painted sculpture at Cave 45 of Mogao Caves, Dunhuang, Gansu province. Photographer Wu Jian has been focusing his lens on Mogao Caves, the UNESCO World Heritage Site, in Dunhuang, Northwest China's Gansu province, for over four decades. He said at the exhibition's opening ceremony that it's a display of part of his works taken at more than 40 cultural …

Photo exhibition hopes to raise awareness on Mogao Caves
1 year, 4 months ago

Photo exhibition hopes to raise awareness on Mogao Caves

China Daily  

A painted sculpture at Cave 45 of Mogao Caves, Dunhuang, Gansu province. Photographer Wu Jian has been focusing his lens on Mogao Caves, the UNESCO World Heritage Site, in Dunhuang, Northwest China's Gansu province, for over four decades. He said at the exhibition's opening ceremony that it's a display of part of his works taken at more than 40 cultural …

Cultural exchange keeps ancient city alive
1 year, 5 months ago

Cultural exchange keeps ancient city alive

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Ancient Sounds of Dunhuang draws inspiration from the Mogao Grottoes, a UNESCO World Heritage Site boasting rich collections of Buddhist artworks. The new performance staged at the theater, Ancient Sounds of Dunhuang, draws inspiration from the Mogao Grottoes, a UNESCO World Heritage Site boasting rich collections of Buddhist artworks. The collections of the Dunhuang Academy, with treasures such as clay …

Digital caves bring history alive
1 year, 7 months ago

Digital caves bring history alive

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The Digital Library Cave project re-creates the 1,600-meter-long external cliff face of the Mogao Caves in Dunhuang, Gansu province. For more than a century, the Library Cave, or Cave 17 of the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, in Northwest China's Gansu province, has been famous for its extraordinary collection of relics and a tale that has had its share of twists …

Digital caves bring history alive
1 year, 7 months ago

Digital caves bring history alive

China Daily  

The Digital Library Cave project re-creates the 1,600-meter-long external cliff face of the Mogao Caves in Dunhuang, Gansu province. For more than a century, the Library Cave, or Cave 17 of the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, in Northwest China's Gansu province, has been famous for its extraordinary collection of relics and a tale that has had its share of twists …

China beefs up cultural relic protection with digital technology
1 year, 8 months ago

China beefs up cultural relic protection with digital technology

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Mogao Grottoes, a world cultural heritage site in Dunhuang of Gansu province, on Oct 2, 2019. On Tuesday, an interactive digital platform called the "Digital Library Cave" was launched, featuring a virtual duplication of the Library Cave, employing digital technology to revive the relics for the benefit of both researchers and the general public. Jointly developed by the Dunhuang Academy …

China beefs up cultural relic protection with digital technology
1 year, 8 months ago

China beefs up cultural relic protection with digital technology

China Daily  

Mogao Grottoes, a world cultural heritage site in Dunhuang of Gansu province, on Oct 2, 2019. On Tuesday, an interactive digital platform called the "Digital Library Cave" was launched, featuring a virtual duplication of the Library Cave, employing digital technology to revive the relics for the benefit of both researchers and the general public. Jointly developed by the Dunhuang Academy …

A deeper dive into Dunhuang
2 years, 1 month ago

A deeper dive into Dunhuang

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Veteran fresco restorer Li Bo and his protege Li Can examine a mural at the Mogao Caves in Dunhuang, Gansu province. Despite being the world's largest treasure trove of Buddhist art, living conditions in Dunhuang, which sits in the Gobi Desert in Northwest China's Gansu province, are harsher than in China's metropolises. Jointly produced by Tencent News and Dunhuang Academy, …

A deeper dive into Dunhuang
2 years, 1 month ago

A deeper dive into Dunhuang

China Daily  

Veteran fresco restorer Li Bo and his protege Li Can examine a mural at the Mogao Caves in Dunhuang, Gansu province. Despite being the world's largest treasure trove of Buddhist art, living conditions in Dunhuang, which sits in the Gobi Desert in Northwest China's Gansu province, are harsher than in China's metropolises. Jointly produced by Tencent News and Dunhuang Academy, …

For those who can's visit, grottoes come to them
2 years, 4 months ago

For those who can's visit, grottoes come to them

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Reproductions of cultural relics, murals and Buddha sculptures from the Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes are shown at Wuhan University's Wanlin Art Museum. More than 3,000 miles from Dunhuang, the Mogao caves, murals and painted sculptures are meeting audiences at the Wanlin Art Museum on the campus of Wuhan University in Wuhan, Hubei province. "We are proud to see the exhibition of …

Dunhuang's ancient beauty shared in digital form
2 years, 4 months ago

Dunhuang's ancient beauty shared in digital form

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A poster for the Dunhuang exhibition in Beijing. By the end of 2021, the "digital Dunhuang project" had completed the digital collection of 268 grottoes, the image processing of 164 grottoes, and the 3D reconstruction of 45 painted sculptures, 146 grottoes and seven large relics sites. In the process, it has not only applied various mature technologies to the digital …

UNESCO, Gansu announce partnership
2 years, 8 months ago

UNESCO, Gansu announce partnership

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The Mogao Caves, a long-established UNESCO World Heritage Site, is Gansu province's signature spot. UNESCO and Northwest China's Gansu province have signed a partnership agreement to promote cultural heritage protection and creative industries in the province. UNESCO will introduce best practices in site conservation and management, sustainable cultural tourism development, community involvement in heritage protection, safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage …

I thank the saints that preserve nation's 'pantheon'
3 years, 1 month ago

I thank the saints that preserve nation's 'pantheon'

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Owen Fishwick In the center of Rome stands the Pantheon－a temple dedicated to all gods. A mere 6,611 kilometers away, China has its own "pantheon"－the Mogao Caves in Dunhuang, Northwest China's Gansu province. This is apt because in the caves are a vast wealth of Buddhist artworks, murals, statues, meditation chambers, burial sites and living quarters dating back as far …

Family has spirit of craftsmanship, commits to restoring cultural relics
3 years, 1 month ago

Family has spirit of craftsmanship, commits to restoring cultural relics

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Li Yunhe in the Yulin Grottoes The murals in the Mogao Grottoes, in Dunhuang, a city in northwest China's Gansu province, date back more than 1,000 years. Li Yunhe, an expert in restoring cultural relics, and his family, for three generations, have helped protect the murals. Li Bo has visited the Kumutula Grottoes, in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, …

Exhibition features Palace Museum, Dunhuang
3 years, 3 months ago

Exhibition features Palace Museum, Dunhuang

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Lou Jie, a researcher with the Dunhuang Academy, introduces a replica of a Mogao Cave to visitors at a preview of the Beyond the Bounds of History exhibition in Beijing's Palace Museum on Sept 16. Two Chinese cultural heritage sites have joined hands to present a major exhibition highlighting their lasting glamour and the significance of the ancient Silk Road. …

Exhibition features Palace Museum, Dunhuang
3 years, 3 months ago

Exhibition features Palace Museum, Dunhuang

China Daily  

Lou Jie, a researcher with the Dunhuang Academy, introduces a replica of a Mogao Cave to visitors at a preview of the Beyond the Bounds of History exhibition in Beijing's Palace Museum on Sept 16. Two Chinese cultural heritage sites have joined hands to present a major exhibition highlighting their lasting glamour and the significance of the ancient Silk Road. …

Dunhuang art goes digital
3 years, 4 months ago

Dunhuang art goes digital

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An immersive digital art exhibition featuring paintings in the ancient frescoes in Dunhuang of Gansu province will soon begin a three-year national tour starting from Shanghai. An immersive digital art exhibition featuring paintings in the ancient frescoes in Dunhuang of Gansu province will take place in Shanghai later this year before going on tour in 12 Chinese cities in the …

Digital Dunhuang Exhibition
3 years, 7 months ago

Digital Dunhuang Exhibition

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Renowned as a World Heritage Site in Northwest China’s Gansu province, the Mogao Caves deserves to be called a holy land of Buddhist art as the home of the largest scale and the richest Buddhist cultural content found in the world. An integration of cave architecture, painted sculpture and murals, it is recognized by both Eastern and Western scholars as …

NPC deputy discusses Dunhuang culture
3 years, 9 months ago

NPC deputy discusses Dunhuang culture

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Tourists visit the Mogao Grottoes, a UNESCO World Heritage site with numerous ancient murals and Buddhist statues, in Dunhuang, Gansu province. The Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, Gansu province are a glorious pearl on the ancient Silk Road, and a typical example of traditional Chinese culture, said Su Bomin, a deputy to the National People's Congress, in an interview during the …

Reporter's log: A tourist carries home vivid images of people obscured by sands of time
3 years, 10 months ago

Reporter's log: A tourist carries home vivid images of people obscured by sands of time

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Paintings in the No 428 cave of the Mogao Grottoes recount stories and philosophies of Buddhism. I was like opening a sealed box with unknown contents when the guide randomly opened one of the old caves at Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, Gansu province. The Mogao Grottoes, a UNESCO World Heritage site, comprise 735 caves built by believers from 366 to …

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