The Blooming of Virtue and Morality: Storytelling in Mogao Cave 275
Samantha Li
27 May 2023
The stunning Cave 275 is a visual repository of many ancient Buddhist stories inspiring virtue, beloved throughout Asia
Devoted to Dunhuang: Speaking with Song Shuxia of the Dunhuang Research Academy
Raymond Lam
8 May 2023
Dunhuang Research Academy senior figure Song Shuxia discusses the Academy’s visitor management of the Mogao Caves and digitization efforts
Pilgrimage: Exploring the Mogao Grottoes of Dunhuang
Samantha Li
27 January 2022
The Mogao Grottoes’ living legacy as sacred space, archeological trove, tourist locale, and conservation site
The Thousand-Buddha Motif: On the Timelessness of Ancient Art
Guoying Stacy Zhang
4 March 2021
Profound expressions of connection and transcendence
The British Library’s Unlocking Buddhist Written Heritage Lectures: Mélodie Doumy and Marie Kaladgew on the Anatomy of a Lotus Sutra Scroll
Raymond Lam
20 October 2020
Caring for a scripture like a patient in conservation
Buddhist Iconography Along the Silk Road with Prof. Osmund Bopearachchi, Part Two – The Land Route
Wendy Yu
3 September 2019
The second in a series on the spread of early Buddhism as…
The Very Long Life of Bugaku
Joseph Houseal
3 August 2019
Beauty and antiquity, order and dignity . . .
Dunhuang Academy Exhibition Showcases Culture of Early Tibet
Raymond Lam
23 July 2019
Exhibits highlight the grandeur and majesty of the Yarlung…
Conservationists Turn to Digital Solutions to Preserve and Share the Treasures of Dunhuang’s Mogao Grottoes
Craig Lewis
12 June 2018
Using technology to conserve an ancient…
Dance at Dunhuang: Part Three – The Sogdian Whirl
Joseph Houseal
8 January 2016
Sogdian merchants were the leading tradesmen working the Silk Road. Sogdiana was a kingdom-state, of which the legendary city Samarakand was the symbolic and cultural