Vajrayana, Mahayana, and Theravada are the most practiced forms of Buddhism today but there were a lot of changes within the Mahayaha practice when the expansion of Buddhism crossed the Silk Road.

The International Dunhuang Project (IDP) is an international collaborative effort to conserve, catalogue and digitise ...

This story appears in the June 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. The human skeletons were piled up like signposts in the sand. For Xuanzang, a Buddhist monk traveling the Silk Road in A ...

Turpan used to be an important strategic point on the Silk Road. As early as two thousand ... The themes of the paintings are taken mostly from Buddhist tales, but they also reflect the close ...

Write an overview of those interactions and their greater significance throughout Indian history, referencing the Silk Road, Buddhism, Gupta Empire, Cholan Empire, astronomy, mathematics ...