In the sweltering summer of AD18, a desperate chant echoed across China's sun-scorched plains:“Heaven has gone blind!” ...

converging into an ideal world resided by Buddhist immortals. The frescoes' historical value can never be overestimated given the fact that few Tang Dynasty paintings, and fewer pieces of ...

SHEN LONGQUAN/FOR CHINA DAILY How would a son of a great filial piety honor his devoutly Buddhist mother after ... of Shakyamuni Buddha dated to the Tang Dynasty (618-907). Carved into the ...

Though sandstone succumbs easily to the chisel, it erodes quickly in rain. The survival of this Buddha and its grottoes, like many in the region, including the famed Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, is due ...

The China Engraved Block Printing Technique is a traditional method of printing that involves manually carving characters and ...

UNESCO emphasized the strong intergenerational transmission of this heritage, often passed down through families, ...

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The city was a tiny kingdom with its own language and culture until, he says, it participated in a failed rebellion against a Han dynasty emperor ... as an enclave of art, literature, handicraft ...

The Buddhist Hanging Scroll at Muryang Temple was designated a National Treasure on Thursday. The 14-meter (45.9-foot) scroll ...