[FairfieldLife] Mogao Caves

2010-06-04 Thread yifuxero
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

Re: [FairfieldLife] Mogao Caves

2010-06-04 Thread Vaj
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