Vajrayana, Mahayana, and Theravada are the most practiced forms of Buddhism today but there were a lot of changes within the Mahayaha practice when the expansion of Buddhism crossed the Silk Road.

(The controversy behind this Silk Road city’s ancient wonders. Oasis trade hub After several weeks, Stein established that as many as 14 Buddhist temples had once dominated the town.

From there, the technique was brought into China, Japan, and South East Asia together with Buddhism via the networks of commercial routes that came to be known of the Silk Road. When Silk Road ...

After a night in the quiet town of Tashkurgan, I catch a bus headed north for the historic Silk Road town of Kashgar, a five-hour drive away. Along the old rocky road, we pass hundreds of ...

Story of China. The Magic of the Silk Road. Clip: Episode 2 | 1m 45s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Michael takes a stroll through the fabulous markets of Kashgar in Chinese Central Asia, still ...

Nineteenth-century geographers imagined the Silk Road as a one-way highway across Asia. The British Museum’s “Silk Roads” sets the exotica of camels, caravans, silks and spices in a web of ...

The Silk Road, like the Milky Way, is not, alas, an entirely literal entity. It’s a branding exercise, a way of making coherent a whole network of ancient trade routes that stretched east and ...

The original Silk Road, a term coined by the German cartographer Ferdinand von Richthofen in the 19th century, was a relatively straightforward affair, reaching from the Chinese Han capital, X ...