NYC Exhibition Depicts Ancient Buddhist Cave Art

ATLANTIC CITY PRESS
By Associated Press

A woman views a full-scale replica cave from the 8th century that contains the Bodhisattva of the Mogao Caves, in ‘Dunhuang: Buddhist Art at the Gateway of the Silk Road,’ at the China Institute, in New York.

NEW YORK---The China Institute Gallery has been transformed into an ancient cave, taking visitors back more than a millennium to a dazzling world where Buddhist worshippers adorned the walls with colorful frescoes, silk prayer banners and lavishly painted life-size clay sculptures. "Dunhuang: Buddhist Art at the Gateway of the Silk Road" features a replica of an 8th century cave carved into the limestone cliffs at the edge of the Gobi Desert southeast of the oasis town of Dunhuang from 366 to about 1300. It is one of 735 Mogao Caves constructed during what is known as the high Tang period (705-781), designed for devout Buddhists to gather and worship. [link]