After unearthing a rare collection of highly prized Silk Road artefacts, a family in the Himalayas has opened a museum ...

For example, the art of the Silk Road includes the devotional art of Buddhism and Islam, the ideas behind certain styles of art such as narrative murals, and the technology to produce various works of ...

The Greek colonies of Central Asia that had been left behind after the collapse of the empire of Alexander the Great had, by the 1st century BCE, largely converted from Greco-Roman paganism to ...

Buddhism spread along the Silk Road from India to China, making profound changes in the way people lived. In Buddha Stories (Holt, 1997), Demi’s drawings in gold ink on indigo blue pages, indicative ...

Indian society before the birth of Buddhism and Arab society before the birth of Islam ... the profane and the sacred. The Silk Road created a link between East and West and fostered the circulation ...

Religious movements and religions have had an important role on the history of the Silk Roads ... For instance, Buddhist monasteries started to set up along the developing trade routes, such as the ...

The Mogao Grottoes are located along the ancient caravan routes—collectively known as the Silk Road—that once linked China with the West. Founded by Buddhist monks in the late fourth century, Mogao ...

And of course God: Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam each coursed along the Silk Road. So did revolutionary innovations such as algebra. So did the bubonic plague. (Scholars think the Black Death ...

Inida's famous monk also came to central China's Henan through Pakistan and Afghanistan, Silk Road in 147 AD and 401 AD respectively, to translate Buddhist books and enroll thousands of disciples.

Christianity and Buddhism, as well as for artistic influences in sculpture, handicrafts and painting. But some scholars say the impact of overland Silk Road routes has been overestimated -- in ...

Following the old Silk Road, Hussain and I snaked our way up the Suru Valley towards the isolated Buddhist kingdom of Zanskar. Turning a corner, I saw three elderly women walking beneath the ...