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| The exhibit includes the central pillar of Mogao Cave 432, from the Western Wei Dynasty. |
Monday, 6 May 2013
NYC Exhibit Depicts Ancient Buddhist Caves
Posted on 03:07 by the great khali
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By Ula Ilnytzky
NEW YORK---The China Institute Gallery has been transformed into an ancient cave, taking visitors back more than a millennium to a dazzling world where Buddhist worshipers adorned the walls with colorful frescoes, silk prayer banners and lavishly painted life-sized clay sculptures. “Dunhuang: Buddhist Art at the Gateway of the Silk Road” features a replica of an eighth-century cave carved into the limestone cliffs at the edge of the Gobi Desert southeast of the oasis town of Dunhuang from 366 to about 1300. [link]
By Ula Ilnytzky
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