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    Dunhuang (listen) is a county-level city in northwestern Gansu Province, Western China. According to the 2010 Chinese census, the city has a population...
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    form a system of 500 temples 25 km (16 mi) southeast of the center of Dunhuang, an oasis located at a religious and cultural crossroads on the Silk Road...
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  • Dunhuang or Dun-Huang is a city in Gansu, China. Dunhuang may also refers to: The Silk Road (film), the 1988 Japanese film also known as Dun-Huang Dun...
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    Dunhuang manuscripts refer to a wide variety of religious and secular documents (mostly manuscripts, including hemp, silk, paper and woodblock-printed...
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    Dunhuang Dance is a form of Chinese dance which combines traditional culture and modern art. Dunhuang dance draws inspiration from the body movements...
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    GPX (secondary coordinates) The Dunhuang railway (simplified Chinese: 敦煌铁路; traditional Chinese: 敦煌鐵路; pinyin: Dūnhuáng Tiělù) is a branch of the Lanzhou–Xinjiang...
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    Xīhàn Jīnshān guó; Hsi-han Chin-shan kuo, 909–911), Dunhuang Kingdom of Western Han (西漢敦煌國; Xīhàn Dūnhuáng guó; Hsi-han Tun-huang kuo, 911–914), was a Chinese...
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    Dunhuang railway station (Chinese: 敦煌站; pinyin: Dūnhuáng zhàn) is 4.5 kilometers from the downtown area of Dunhuang, between the existing national highway...
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  • The Dunhuang–Golmud railway or Dunge railway (Chinese: 敦格铁路; pinyin: dūngé tiělù) is a railway between Dunhuang, Gansu and Golmud, Qinghai in Northwestern...
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  • The Dunhuang Caves may be one of five archaeological sites around Dunhuang in Gansu: Mogao Caves ("Caves of the Thousand Buddhas") Western Thousand Buddha...
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  • The Dunhuang Manichaean texts refers to three Manichaean manuscripts of the Tang dynasty found in the Buddhist scripture cave of Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang...
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    The Dunhuang map or Dunhuang Star map is one of the first known graphical representations of stars from ancient Chinese astronomy, dated to the Tang dynasty...
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    "guardian of Dunhuang" for his crucial role in documenting, preserving, and publicizing the ancient artworks at the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, China. Chang...
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    Funtech (redirect from Dunhuang Technology)
    The Funtech Entertainment Corporation (敦煌科技 - Dunhuang Technology) was a Taiwanese company responsible for the Super A'Can amongst other things such as...
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    The Gansu Dunhuang Solar Park is a 50-megawatt (MW) photovoltaic power station located in the Gansu Province, in China. All of the modules, which range...
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    Quán) is a crescent-shaped lake in an oasis, 6 km south of the city of Dunhuang in Gansu Province, China. The lake was named Yueyaquan in the Qing Dynasty...
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    The Dunhuang Mosque (Chinese: 敦煌清真寺; pinyin: Dūnhuáng Qīngzhēnsì) is a mosque in Dunhuang City, Gansu Province, China. The mosque was originally built...
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    and determinative stars are: Byakkotai "The Chinese Sky". International Dunhuang Project. Archived from the original on 2015-11-04. Retrieved 2011-06-25...
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  • from quotations in a partial manuscript discovered in the Mogao Caves, Dunhuang, in China. The work is honorifically known as the Taishang lingbao Laozi...
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    this corridor, building the strategic Yumenguan (Jade Gate Pass, near Dunhuang) and Yangguan fort towns along it. Remains of the wall and the towns can...
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    the Jade Gate, is the name of a pass of the Great Wall located west of Dunhuang in today's Gansu Province of China. During the Han dynasty (202 BC – AD...
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    The International Dunhuang Project (IDP) is an international collaborative effort to conserve, catalogue and digitise manuscripts, printed texts, paintings...
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    The Singing Sand Dunes (Chinese: 鳴沙山 Ming Sha Shan) in Dunhuang, China, are the sand dunes that, when the wind blows, give out a singing or drumming sound...
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  • 1917 — January 21, 2011) was a Chinese archaeologist. Director of the Dunhuang Academy. Born in 1917 in Changle Town, Pengxi County, Suining City, Sichuan...
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    Mogao caves at Dunhuang. In 1922, the Fogg Museum sent Warner to China to explore western China. He arrived at the Mogao Caves in Dunhuang in January 1924...
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  • The Great Dunhuang is a Chinese television series based on the history of the oasis city of Dunhuang, which lies on the ancient Silk Road. With a Buddhist...
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    Dunhuang Museum is a museum in Dunhuang, Gansu, China. It contains a number of Chinese and Tibetan items such as manuscripts from Cave 17 of Mogao Caves...
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    influence of Tang art in Dunhuang. Until Dunhuang was conquered by Tibet in 781, the effect of the Tang dynasty in Dunhuang murals was significant and...
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    Ruoqiang Town (Charklik) Miran Yangguan, or Yangguan Pass Dunhuang the Mogao Caves Anxi Dunhuang (Major City) Jiayuguan Jiuquan Zhangye Shandan Liangzhou...
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    in the Aksai Annanba Nature Reserve (1992), and in Dunhuang Wanyaodun Nature Reserve (now Dunhuang Xihu Wild Camel Nature Reserve) contiguous with the...
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