Featured in National Geographic: In a Silk Road oasis, thousands of Buddhas
enthrall scholars and tourists alike.
a stand of poplars under the dunes of China's Gobi desert marks the presence
of a seasonal river and a mile-long cliff carved by its waters. In the fourth
century AD Buddhists
You'd really dig this:
http://buddhisttorrents.blogspot.com/2010/02/chinas-frozen-desert.html
Also the Nat. Geo. special of the Lost Cave Temples of the Himalayas is a
real good documentary as they reconstruct in 3D huge cave monasteries and
libraries they find on the old, now defunct salt