Dunhuang Art: Through the Eyes of Duan Wenjie, Wenjie Duan, Chung Tan, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, Abhinav Publications, 1994, ISBN 978-81-7017-313-7, ... However, from the Indian cultural viewpoint there are obviously elements in Dunhuang art which are drawn from non-Buddhist traditions. Though I am far from an expert in this field, I seem to have seen Hindu gods in many places ...
International Dictionary of Historic Places: Asia and OceaniaArchived 2016-05-14 at the वेबैक मशीन, Trudy Ring, Robert M. Salkin, Sharon La Boda, Taylor & Francis, 1995, ISBN 978-1-884964-04-6, ... At this time, Dunhuang was the westernmost outpost of China. It had been settled and fortified by the Chinese in the late second century AD following a military campaign against the Xiongnu ... In 1036 Dunhuang fell to the Xi Xia kingdom. It was probably in response to Xi Xia ascendancy that the monks at the Mogao Caves began to leave the region. In 1227 Dunhuang was invaded by the Mongol armies of Genghis Khan ...
International Dictionary of Historic Places: Asia and OceaniaArchived 2016-05-14 at the वेबैक मशीन, Trudy Ring, Robert M. Salkin, Sharon La Boda, Taylor & Francis, 1995, ISBN 978-1-884964-04-6, ... At this time, Dunhuang was the westernmost outpost of China. It had been settled and fortified by the Chinese in the late second century AD following a military campaign against the Xiongnu ... In 1036 Dunhuang fell to the Xi Xia kingdom. It was probably in response to Xi Xia ascendancy that the monks at the Mogao Caves began to leave the region. In 1227 Dunhuang was invaded by the Mongol armies of Genghis Khan ...
