the creation of the complex's largest statue, a 116-foot-tall seated Buddha. By the late tenth century the Silk Road had begun to fade. More caves would be dug and decorated, including one with ...

That Buddha embodies the show’s ambition to expand the desert-caravan “Silk Road” — so named by the ... two-metre-high 12th-century Shiva Nataraja statue from Tamil Nadu.

Every day, watched by four gilded Buddha statues, a Japanese Buddhist ... It was a wealthy region, thanks to its position on the Silk Road - the trade routes linking China, India and the ...

Beyond the hustle of the modern world, the ancient remains of Buddhism connect us to a time when caravans traversed the Silk Road, carrying not just goods but also the teachings of the Buddha.

Over the centuries, the cultural treasures grew in number. The most remarkable is the Giant Buddha of Leshan, carved out of a hillside in the 8th century and looking down on the confluence of three ...

In Chinese, mingsha means singing sand. Whenever wind blows across the land, the countless sand grains that cover it rub against each other, producing a deep, resonant sound. Sometimes, it's a hum; ...

One of the largest statues of the Buddha in the United States rises 30 feet high from the woods in Franklin Township, near Princeton. It was built a decade ago under the leadership of a Sri Lankan ...

With its innumerable stone reliefs, its stupas and masterly statues of Buddha, Borobudur is the greatest example of Indonesian religious art. The site was probably abandoned in the fifteenth century ...