Overview: Using slides of objects from the exhibition Monks and Merchants: Silk Road Treasures from Northwest China, Gansu and Ningxia, 4th to 7th Century, students will generate word maps that act as ...

Santong Bridge at the historic Shangxiahang district in central Fuzhou. [Photo by Elyar Najmehchi for chinadaily.com.cn] Fuzhou, capital of southeastern Fujian province, rarely features on travel ...

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 Kushans assimilated many philosophies—Hindu, Zoroastrian, and Buddhist—and soon sent a gift far more heavenly than the horse down the Silk Road, a new philosophy of enlightenment that China ...

The first caves were founded in 366 AD by Buddhist monks, and distinguished Dunhuang as a center for Buddhist learning, drawing large numbers of pilgrims to the city. Monks and pilgrims often ...

After unearthing a rare collection of highly prized Silk Road artefacts, a family in the Himalayas has opened a museum dedicated to one of the fabled route's final traders.

The Silk Road refers to one of the world's largest overland trade routes – a network that spanned 6,400km connecting Europe to far East Asia. Although named for the Chinese silks that the Roman ...

A Buddhist temple at Dandan-Oilik was first excavated by Marc Aurel Stein in 1900. It consists of a central cella nested in a larger square structure. Album ByÁngel Carlos Pérez Aguayo December ...

The Silk Road, that network of trade routes connecting the East to the West and synonymous with the Chinese civilisation, is often thought of as the first truly global trade route in history ...

Buddhism is often thought of as foreign or exotic, something to do with China or the Silk Road. And yet, it is India’s most successful soft power export,” Dalrymple said.

This is a total length of 561km. The Kizil Grottoes, with their murals and Thousand Buddha Caves, were a vibrant cultural and commercial centre on the ancient Silk Road.