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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Mogao Caves (redirect from Dunhuang Grottoes)
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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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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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 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 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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Guiyi Circuit (redirect from Dunhuang Kingdom of Western Han)
Jīnshān guó; Hsi-han Chin-shan kuo, 909–911), and 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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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 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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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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"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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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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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 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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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 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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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 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 International Dunhuang Project (IDP) is an international collaborative effort to conserve, catalogue and digitise manuscripts, printed texts, paintings...
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Hexi Corridor, namely (from east to west) Wuwei, Zhangye, Jiuquan and Dunhuang, collectively known as the Four Commanderies of Hexi (Chinese: 河西四郡). From...
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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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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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Dunhuang Mogao International Airport (IATA: DNH, ICAO: ZLDH) is an airport serving the city of Dunhuang in Gansu Province, China. The airport was formerly...
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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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Gansu (section Silk Road and Dunhuang City)
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 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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Huahujing (section Dunhuang manuscript)
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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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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The Dunhuang Research Academy (Chinese: 敦煌研究院; pinyin: Dūnhuáng Yánjiùyuàn), originally the National Research Institute on Dunhuang Art, is a "national...
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