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.

Everybody has heard of the Silk Road，but not that many people know what the Silk Road really is. Xi Huidong, deputy dean of the Institute of Silk Road Studies of Northwest University, uses a ...

On Sept 18, the Silk Road Danqing – Exhibition of Murals along the Ancient Silk Road opened at the China Cultural Center in Paris, France.

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 ...

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 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 ...

Understanding that these trade routes conveyed so much more than commercial goods, about 30 years ago UNESCO launched an ambitious project entitled ‘Integral Study of the Silk Roads as Roads of ...