But the miracle of the Mogao caves is not their impermanence but rather their improbable longevity. 1 of 8 A Chinese official penned characters reading "Dunhuang" on this bamboo strip some 2,000 ...

The Mogao Caves in Dunhuang, a hub of ancient Chinese Buddhist art and spirituality, fell victim to extensive looting in the early 20th century. Today, the priceless relics taken from this sacred ...

The glorious paintings and statues of the Dunhuang caves have long attracted visitors from around the world. But tourism is doing more harm than good to these extremely fragile works of art.

Dunhuang attracts visitors mainly because it is contains some of the most priceless of Buddhist art in the world-- the Mogao Caves. The Mogao Grottoes of Dunhuang, popularly known as the Thousand ...

The First Sight of Dunhuang, a new book of 112 restored mural artworks of the Mogao Caves in Dunhuang, Gansu province, and nearby Yulin Caves. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] A new book ...

The Dunhuang manuscripts, discovered in 1900 in the Mogao Caves in Gansu's Dunhuang, span from the 4th to the 11th century. These ancient documents, which include handwritten texts, printed ...

Neil Schmid is the first and only Western scholar hired by the Dunhuang Academy in northwest China's Gansu province to study the nearby Mogao Caves, also called the Thousand Buddha Grottoes.

The Digital Library for Dunhuang Studies and the Digital Library Cave database were launched in 2024, facilitating the sharing of high-resolution digital images of the Mogao Grottoes and digital ...