Showing posts with label mogao caves. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mogao caves. Show all posts

Sunday, 19 August 2012

Mogao Caves, China

Moving on to Asia.. This beautiful view is an official I received from China earlier this year. ..and it's a Unesco site, too!

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The Mogao Caves form a system of 492 temples 25 km southeast of the center of Dunhuang, an oasis strategically located at a religious and cultural crossroads on the Silk Road, in Gansu province, China. The caves contain some of the finest examples of Buddhist art spanning a period of 1,000 years. The first caves were dug out 366 AD as places of Buddhist meditation and worship.