DunHuang [Tun-Huang]
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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 lived together. Chinese (in the ethnic sense), Mongols, Uighurs, Tibetans, Hsia, and others resided here. In he mountains nearby, Buddhist cave-shrines began to be constructed from 366 A.D., in which scriptures were stored, and wall paintings and sculptures were created and maintained. Dunhuang, at 42N, is at approximately the same latitude as the cities of Boston, Rome, and Bacelona. For today's weather at Dunhuang,click here.
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Fresco painting - A Dancer
Northern Wei Dynasty 386-634 AD
Fresco painting - A Dancer
Northern Wei Dynasty 386-634 AD
Fresco painting - Hunting Scene
Ceiling of Cave 249- Chien-fo-tung cave
Northern Wei Dynasty 386-634 AD
Fresco painting - Detail of a Legend
Western Wei Dynasty 535-557 AD
Boddhisattva of the Red Lotus- Cave 57
Tang Dynasty 690-730 AD
Fresco painting Cave 112
690-730 AD
Fresco painting West wall of Cave285
Dunhuang Wenwu Yanjiusuo ,
Beijing: Wenwu, 1989.
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