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Silk Road: Reviving past glory of
Silk Road center
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Kashgar - follow Marco Polo's footsteps
Shenzhen
Daily/China Daily June 7, 2006 - At the western end of China's
Silk Road - has been the stopping-off point for travelers for at
least 2,000 years. Today's silk and spice merchants, rug dealers
and livestock sellers could well be descendants of the locals who
provisioned the Chinese silk traders 2,000 years ago and Marco
Polo a mere 900 years ago. This oasis surrounded by the arid Pamir
Plateau and snow-capped mountains now boasts a population of
340,000, high-rises and highways, but its exotic pleasures remain.
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Sights on the Old Silk Road
Xinhuanet, Nov. 11, 2005 - Japanese philosopher Daisaku Ikeda once asked
Dr. Arnold Toynbee, in the course of their discussions in the early 1970s, in
which age and place in history he would choose to be born. The late British
historian promptly replied Xinjiang during the early C.E. era, the time when
Mahayana Buddhism came to East Asia from India by way of Xinjiang, which was a
conglomeration of Indian, Greek, Iranian and Chinese cultures. Buddhism entered
China through Xinjiang by way of the Old Silk Road that connected then capital
Chang'an (today's Xi'an) with Central Asia and Europe. Followers of other
religions and philosophies, such as Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism, the Nestorian
Church, Taoism from inland China, and Islam, also came to Xinjiang from kingdoms
and regions along the Old Silk Road. (Click
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Dunhuang:
Caves of the Singing Sands - Buddhist Art from the Silk Road
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China:
A Trip Along the Silk Road - Lynn Salmon recounts a trip
in the spring of 1991.
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The
Silk Road - overview of sights in modern day China along
the ancient trade route.
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Silk
Road Foundation - to promote the study and preservation of
cultures and art on Inner Asia and the Silk Road.
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Dunhuang
and the Cave of Manuscripts - from the Silk Road Library.
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Silk
Road Project News: concert previews, schedules, ...Yo-Yo
Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble on the Airwaves Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk
Road Ensemble
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The
Silk Road The Silk Road. ... By this process, the route to the
west was opened up. Zhang Qian is still seen by many to be the
father of the Silk Road. ...
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Silk
Road
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Lost
Cities of the Silk Road Pamela Logan's Asia Adventure Page.
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The
Geography of the Silk Road
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Alex
Sievers / OASE Photography The Silk Road through China gallery
with 74 photos by Alex Sievers.
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Silk
Road Gallery
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The
Silk Road Ancient Persia : article by Jona Lendering.
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Wee
Keng Hor's Silk Road Trip
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Maps:
The Silk Road
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