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The Caves of Dunhuang "Sand is implacable here in far western China. It blows and shifts and eats away at everything, erasing boundaries, scouring graves, leaving farmers in despair. It's one of many threats to the major tourist draw of Dunhuang, a city on the lip of the Gobi desert: the hundreds of rock-cut Buddhist grottoes that pepper a cliff face outside town." "The earliest examples of caves, small and plain, were used for shelter and meditation, occasionally for burials. By the early fifth century, however, larger grottoes were excavated as temples and monastic lecture halls. Many had chapel-like niches and freestanding altars, all cut from stone. The interiors were sculpted with architectural features as if to simulate buildings."
]]> http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/07/06/arts/0706-COTT_index.html Sun, 06 Jul 2008 07:52:51 -0700 http://ogmin.stumbleupon.com/review/23143107/ Ogmin - From the page: "and is implacable here in far western China. It blows and shifts and eats away at everything, erasing boundaries, scouring graves, leaving farmers in despair. It's one of many threats to the major tourist draw of Dunhuang, a city on the lip of the Gobi desert: the hundreds of rock-cut Buddhist grottoes that pepper a cliff face outside town. "]]> http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/07/06/arts/0706-COTT_index.html