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Kosher Chinese food might sound like something you can get only in New York, but the cultural exchan

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The Three Hares is an ancient motif found in various parts of the world. This design features three

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Samarkand is a city located in modern day Uzbekistan. The location in the Zerafshan River Valley pro

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One of the most tragic examples of religiousiconoclasm in recent history is the destruction of the t

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More than 100 merchants are making an epicjourney, crossing 15,000 kilometers on camelback and retra

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Archaeologists in China have just reported on the discovery of a 1,700-year-old cemetery along the o

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The Dunhuang manuscripts are a cache of thousands of ancient texts of great historical and religious

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The recognition of the ancient Silk Road as a World Heritage site would help better preserve its rel

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Plaque with Buddhist Triad, 7th century, Tang dynasty (618–907), China - Met Museum, NYC. 

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Paramasukha Chakrasamvara in Yab Yum. Khara Khoto, Inner Mongolia, 13th century - Hermitage Museum

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Buddha (fragment), Tangka on linen, Khara Khoto, Inner Mongolia, 13th century - Hermitage Museum

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Framed Tangut Text on a Lotus. Indian ink and paints. Khara Khoto, Inner Mongolia (China), 12th-13th

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Mural Painting, section of a Pranidhi scene, from the 5th-14th century Bezeklik Caves, Turpan. Natio

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Clay images, the ‘Miraculous Rebirth in a Lotus’. Khotan, Central Asia, 3rd-5th century (?) - Nation

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Clay images, the ‘Miraculous Rebirth in a Lotus’. Khotan, Central Asia, 3rd-5th century (?) - Nation

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Bodhisattva Maitreya and Attendants. 4th century CE. Tash Khurgan, China (Western). MFA.

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Mural from Cave Temple 9 at Bezeklik, Turfan (Turpan). Formerly in Berlin (destroyed during WWII).

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Fragmentary banner of the bodhisattva and celestial guardian Vajrapani. T'ang period, late 9th c. CE

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Ancient trade:Top: front and back of a uniface ancient imitation of a Byzantine gold coin depicting

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Atlas. Gandhara, Afghanistan, circa 1st-2nd century.

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