Digital drive opens more doors to grottoes
5 years, 5 months ago

Digital drive opens more doors to grottoes

China Daily  

Digital-imaging specialists work in one of the Mogao grottoes. The crowds heading to the iconic repositories of ancient Buddhist art constantly threaten the fragile cliff-side environment on the fringe of the Silk Road oasis, according to Zhao Shengliang, director of the Dunhuang Academy, which manages and studies the site and its relics. The first type is limited to 6,000 tickets and allows holders to access eight of the 492 grottoes containing major Buddhist art, while the second category allows up to 12,000 visitors to enter four of the caves. Faced with the physical and geographical limitations of the site, the academy is pushing ahead with a major digital-imaging drive to archive the Buddhist relics so that more people can access and appreciate them. Building on the groundwork of the late 1990s and collaborations with international cultural institutions, the digital archiving of 221 caves has seen completed, according to Wu Jian, director of the academy's cultural relics digitization institute.

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Protection of major grottoes emphasized
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Protection of major grottoes emphasized

China Daily  

Tourists visit the Maijishan Grottoes in Tianshui, Gansu province, in June. As part of Xi's four-day trip to Gansu province last week, Zhao accompanied the president on a fact-finding trip to the Maijishan Grottoes, one of China's four major grottoes sites. China's vast landscape is home to nearly 6,000 cave temples, and the Chinese president lauded the nation's major grottoes …

Gaming technology enables worldwide culture sharing
7 months, 1 week ago

Gaming technology enables worldwide culture sharing

China Daily  

Snapshots of the English version of the gamelike Digital Library Cave program, through which users can play the role of a time-traveling explorer of a millennium's twists and turns at the Mogao Caves in Dunhuang, Northwest China's Gansu province. English and French versions of Dunhuang's Digital Library Cave give 'tourists' new experience, Fang Aiqing reports. The potential of gaming technology …

Gaming technology enables worldwide culture sharing
7 months, 1 week ago

Gaming technology enables worldwide culture sharing

China Daily  

Snapshots of the English version of the gamelike Digital Library Cave program, through which users can play the role of a time-traveling explorer of a millennium's twists and turns at the Mogao Caves in Dunhuang, Northwest China's Gansu province. English and French versions of Dunhuang's Digital Library Cave give 'tourists' new experience, Fang Aiqing reports. The potential of gaming technology …

Dunhuang Academy's protection team work to ensure relics not lost to sands of time
9 months, 3 weeks ago

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

China Daily  

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 …

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

Dedicated to a new age of restoration

China Daily  

The Mogao Caves in Dunhuang are a popular destination for tourists. WANG KAIHAO/CHINA DAILY The site, which, archaeologists estimate, dates back to the Northern Wei Dynasty, shares cultural and artistic consistency with the Mogao Caves. He's always been astonished at the ability of the ancient painters to precisely portray the mental state of the characters, and to present dynamic scenes …

Photo exhibition hopes to raise awareness on Mogao Caves
1 year, 5 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, 5 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, 5 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 …

Digital caves bring history alive
1 year, 8 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 …

Digital caves bring history alive
1 year, 8 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

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 …

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 …

China launches interactive digital platform to display Dunhuang culture online
1 year, 8 months ago

China launches interactive digital platform to display Dunhuang culture online

China Daily  

An interactive digital platform of a virtual duplication of the Library Cave in Mogao Grottoes, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Dunhuang, Northwest China's Gansu province, is accessible to the public from Tuesday. Jointly developed by the Dunhuang Academy and leading Chinese tech firm Tencent, the platform reproduces the historical scenes of the Library Cave over one hundred years ago …

A deeper dive into Dunhuang
2 years, 2 months 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, …

A deeper dive into Dunhuang
2 years, 2 months 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, …

Dunhuang's ancient beauty shared in digital form
2 years, 5 months ago

Dunhuang's ancient beauty shared in digital form

China Daily  

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 …

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. …

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

China Daily  

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

China Daily  

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 …

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

China Daily  

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 …

Ancient caves give young viewers a sense of history
4 years, 1 month ago

Ancient caves give young viewers a sense of history

China Daily  

A scene from the reality show, Glory Is Back, which features the present and past of Gansu province's city of Dunhuang, the Gobi Desert, Mogao Caves, as well as its people. Which makes it a strange circumstance that the Forbidden City and Summer Palace in Beijing, along with a string of key museums across China, have been featured in popular …

Cultural gems still visible from home
4 years, 8 months ago

Cultural gems still visible from home

China Daily  

A Zhaojun Museum guide speaks to audiences through live 5G broadcast in Hohhot, capital of the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, on March 7. DING GENHOU/FOR CHINA DAILY As a graphic designer, Liu Liangxian has always dreamed of visiting the Mogao Caves in Gansu province, where one of the world's greatest sites of Buddhist art has inspired generations of Chinese and …

Cultural gems still visible from home
4 years, 8 months ago

Cultural gems still visible from home

China Daily  

A Zhaojun Museum guide speaks to audiences through live 5G broadcast in Hohhot, capital of the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, on March 7. DING GENHOU/FOR CHINA DAILY As a graphic designer, Liu Liangxian has always dreamed of visiting the Mogao Caves in Gansu province, where one of the world's greatest sites of Buddhist art has inspired generations of Chinese and …

AI tech helps tourists enjoy Dunhuang's art like never before
4 years, 8 months ago

AI tech helps tourists enjoy Dunhuang's art like never before

China Daily  

A visitor experiences the Hetu artificial intelligence platform during a tour of Cave 257 in Mogao. On the evening of April 8, Dunhuang Academy and Huawei jointly launched a brand-new technology-driven tour experience at the Mogao Grottoes. Using Huawei's newly-released Hetu artificial intelligence platform, coupled with the output of the Digital Dunhuang project, visitors to the Mogao Grottoes can enjoy …

AI tech helps tourists enjoy Dunhuang's art like never before
4 years, 8 months ago

AI tech helps tourists enjoy Dunhuang's art like never before

China Daily  

A visitor experiences the Hetu artificial intelligence platform during a tour of Cave 257 in Mogao. On the evening of April 8, Dunhuang Academy and Huawei jointly launched a brand-new technology-driven tour experience at the Mogao Grottoes. Using Huawei's newly-released Hetu artificial intelligence platform, coupled with the output of the Digital Dunhuang project, visitors to the Mogao Grottoes can enjoy …

World heritage grottoes online tour launched for stay-at-home visitors
4 years, 9 months ago

World heritage grottoes online tour launched for stay-at-home visitors

China Daily  

A screenshot of the official website of Digital Dunhuang. Sitting at home, Wang Nan, a Dunhuang culture enthusiast in the eastern Chinese city of Qingdao, paid her first visit to the Mogao Grottoes via her smartphone. The Dunhuang Academy, which administers the Mogao Grottoes, in Northwest China's Gansu province, has been offering online exhibitions on various platforms, including its official …

Virtual tours provide a unique insight
4 years, 9 months ago

Virtual tours provide a unique insight

China Daily  

A livestreaming tour of the Potala Palace on March 9 gives viewers a chance to see its collection of Buddhist statues. XINHUA HEFEI－Walking past traditional Chinese buildings with cream-colored walls topped with dark tiles, a golden sea of rapeseed flowers and lush green bamboo forests, Huang Min, 29, guided an audience of 90,000 on her phone. The picturesque scenery in …

Building on a legacy
5 years, 1 month ago

Building on a legacy

China Daily  

The Mogao Caves are one of the country's biggest treasure troves of Buddhist art. The former director of the Dunhuang Academy's unwavering commitment to conservation over the decades is being rightly celebrated, Wang Kaihao reports. Editor's Note: President Xi Jinping called for more efforts to carry forward the culture of Dunhuang, during his visit to the UNESCO World Heritage Site …

Building on a legacy
5 years, 1 month ago

Building on a legacy

China Daily  

The Mogao Caves are one of the country's biggest treasure troves of Buddhist art. The former director of the Dunhuang Academy's unwavering commitment to conservation over the decades is being rightly celebrated, Wang Kaihao reports. Editor's Note: President Xi Jinping called for more efforts to carry forward the culture of Dunhuang, during his visit to the UNESCO World Heritage Site …

Technology enlisted in ongoing battle to preserve grottoes
5 years, 4 months ago

Technology enlisted in ongoing battle to preserve grottoes

China Daily  

Summer vacation is the busiest time at the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, Northwest China's Gansu province. A ticket reservation service and a cap on the number of visitors have been adopted to help preserve the murals. LANZHOU－Summer is the busiest season for staff at the Mogao Grottoes, as more than a third of the annual visitors to the UNESCO World …

Technology enlisted in ongoing battle to preserve grottoes
5 years, 4 months ago

Technology enlisted in ongoing battle to preserve grottoes

China Daily  

Summer vacation is the busiest time at the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, Northwest China's Gansu province. We are studying the relationship between this data and the rate of the decay to continue exploring appropriate preventive measures," says Guo Qinglin, head of the academy's conservation institute. In the 1980s, Dunhuang Academy China began partnering with research institutes and universities, including China's …

Technology enlisted in ongoing battle to preserve grottoes
5 years, 4 months ago

Technology enlisted in ongoing battle to preserve grottoes

China Daily  

Summer vacation is the busiest time at the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, Northwest China's Gansu province. A ticket reservation service and a cap on the number of visitors have been adopted to help preserve the murals. LANZHOU－Summer is the busiest season for staff at the Mogao Grottoes, as more than a third of the annual visitors to the UNESCO World …

Technology enlisted in ongoing battle to preserve grottoes
5 years, 4 months ago

Technology enlisted in ongoing battle to preserve grottoes

China Daily  

Summer vacation is the busiest time at the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, Northwest China's Gansu province. A ticket reservation service and a cap on the number of visitors have been adopted to help preserve the murals. LANZHOU－Summer is the busiest season for staff at the Mogao Grottoes, as more than a third of the annual visitors to the UNESCO World …

Digital drive opens more doors to grottoes
5 years, 5 months ago

Digital drive opens more doors to grottoes

China Daily  

Digital-imaging specialists work in one of the Mogao grottoes. The crowds heading to the iconic repositories of ancient Buddhist art constantly threaten the fragile cliff-side environment on the fringe of the Silk Road oasis, according to Zhao Shengliang, director of the Dunhuang Academy, which manages and studies the site and its relics. The first type is limited to 6,000 tickets …

Reveling in global legacy of the silk road
5 years, 5 months ago

Reveling in global legacy of the silk road

China Daily  

Tourists visit one of the Mogao Caves' 492 Buddhist grottoes in Dunhuang, Gansu province. Conservation of Buddhist artworks at the Mogao Caves is encouraging similar efforts at home and abroad Editor's note: As the People's Republic of China prepares to celebrate its 70th anniversary on Oct 1, China Daily is featuring a series of stories on the role regions have …

Digital drive opens more doors to grottoes
5 years, 5 months ago

Digital drive opens more doors to grottoes

China Daily  

Digital-imaging specialists work in one of the Mogao grottoes. The crowds heading to the iconic repositories of ancient Buddhist art constantly threaten the fragile cliff-side environment on the fringe of the Silk Road oasis, according to Zhao Shengliang, director of the Dunhuang Academy, which manages and studies the site and its relics. The first type is limited to 6,000 tickets …

Reveling in global legacy of the silk road
5 years, 5 months ago

Reveling in global legacy of the silk road

China Daily  

Tourists visit one of the Mogao Caves' 492 Buddhist grottoes in Dunhuang, Gansu province. Conservation of Buddhist artworks at the Mogao Caves is encouraging similar efforts at home and abroad Editor's note: As the People's Republic of China prepares to celebrate its 70th anniversary on Oct 1, China Daily is featuring a series of stories on the role regions have …

Digital drive opens more doors to grottoes
5 years, 5 months ago

Digital drive opens more doors to grottoes

China Daily  

Twenty-five exhibitions and events related to the digitized murals, sculptures and other relics have been rolled out at home and abroad, from Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, and Hong Kong to Bali in Indonesia and Moscow, with virtual reality and 3D technology improving the experience, he said. Many of the foreign visitors to Dunhuang are from the United States and Japan, while …

Digital drive opens more doors to grottoes
5 years, 5 months ago

Digital drive opens more doors to grottoes

China Daily  

Digital-imaging specialists work in one of the Mogao grottoes. The crowds heading to the iconic repositories of ancient Buddhist art constantly threaten the fragile cliff-side environment on the fringe of the Silk Road oasis, according to Zhao Shengliang, director of the Dunhuang Academy, which manages and studies the site and its relics. The first type is limited to 6,000 tickets …

Digital drive opens more doors to grottoes
5 years, 5 months ago

Digital drive opens more doors to grottoes

China Daily  

Twenty-five exhibitions and events related to the digitized murals, sculptures and other relics have been rolled out at home and abroad, from Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, and Hong Kong to Bali in Indonesia and Moscow, with virtual reality and 3D technology improving the experience, he said. Many of the foreign visitors to Dunhuang are from the United States and Japan, while …

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