Dunhuang, Gansu, China: Part 1
On my first day in Dunhuang, I go to the Singing Sands Mountain and see the Crescent Lake Oasis that the city is so famous for. It was the last stop on the frontier of China before traders would leave the country and venture out on the Silk Road, and its legacy lives on, even today.
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Traveling with Wayan Mawa - In the Kingdom of Wonder: White Horse Monastery
So called 'White Horse Monastery' because the entrance of the monastery decorated with a pair of white horses, white men ride the horse on both sides. Also called Wat Daem Daikh. The monastery or pagoda itself is unique. Many artifacts found to be related to Chinese and Indian characters or represent multi ethnic.
Zhangye, Gansu: Horse's Hoof Temple: Matisi
I was really lucky to be able to recover this footage - this is a place that foreigners rarely visit, so I REALLY wanted to show you!
The Mati Temple Scenic Area, also named Horse's Hoof Temple, is a distinguished scenic spot integrating grottoes, the scenery of the Qilian Mountain, and Yugur local customs, lying in Sunan Yugur Autonomous County in Zhangye City.
Legend about the Horse's Hoof Temple goes that a Chinese Pegasus landed here, leaving a huge horseshoe imprint that can still be seen within the Mati Hall in the temple. Thus the temple got the name “Horse's Hoof Temple”.
Mati Temple boasts more than 70 caves and shrines. These grottoes are arranged in the form of a pagoda, with Buddhist halls inside and corridors outside. The total number of caves and shrines both inside and outside is up to 49, all of which are of unique designs. The surroundings of Mati Temple are very beautiful, and the verdant hills, green waters, unusual peaks and peculiar caves are the most famous things of Mati Temple.
The Mati Temple Scenic Area consists of mountains, grasslands, pine forests, and a range of temples. Around the main temple there are winding passageways, caves, and well-organized stairwells.
Besides, the Mati Temple Scenic Area is distinguished for the Yugur People, which is a unique minority group in Gansu Province, living at the foot of the snow-covered Qilian Mountain in the southern part of Zhangye for several generations. The Yugur people are fa¬mous for their folk songs, dances, tents, costumes, food and culture. Studies show that the Yugur people may be descendants of the Xiongnu people, an ancient nomadic people in China who roved about on the highland meadow at the foot of Qilian Mountain for good water resources and lush grassland.
In the Mati Temple Scenic Area, tourists can enjoy the scenery of Qilian Mountain and the vast grassland. It is also possible to stay in a Yugu minority tent, where you can drink chang (Tibetan wine, made of barley) presented by Yugur girls, sample the traditional hand eaten lamb, accept hada (a silk scarf used as a greeting gift), and appreciate folk songs to know more about nomads lifestyle. Horseriding can be tried, which makes you experience unique customs of the Yugur in Zhangye.
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çin budha mağaraları, Yungang Grottoes, longman caves, china buddha caves,
Yungang Grottoes
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SIlk Road from Urumqi to Xian.
12 days tour.
Urumqi. Turpan. Hami. Dunhuang. Jiayuguan. Zhangye. Lanzhou. Wuwei. Tienshui. Xian.
Barbara & Adrian in China Sept 2010 two. In & around Datong & Luoyang
Views of Guan Ying Temple, Yungang Grottos, Shenhua Temple, Nine dragon Screen, Wooden Pagoda, Hanging Temple, White Horse Temple, Shaolin Temple, Longmen Caves, Guinlin Temple and the Chariot & horse Pits.
Transcendent Specifics: Buddhist Arts of Tibet, Japan, Korea, and China
Lecture by Katherine Anne Paul, curator of the arts of Asia at the Newark Museum, New Jersey
Like art of other global religions, each region where Buddhism took hold developed locally specific iterations. While the central story about the life of the historical Buddha Shakyamuni is shared by all practitioners, in the artistic practices of Tibet, Japan, Korea, and China, images of figures other than the historical Buddha rose in popularity. Each area made images from locally available materials and developed stylistic characteristics that are distinct to both place and time. This illustrated lecture not only unlocks the basics of how to read narratives and iconography of Buddhist art, but also highlights distinguishing factors of each regional manifestation.
Buddhist temple in Xian, China.
Buddhist temple in Xian very spiritual place where there is peace and harmony . Here one can be alone with yourself , and hear the same inner voice. Буддийский храм в сиане очень душевное место где царит спокойствие и гармония. Здесь каждый может побыть наедине с собой, и услышать тот самый внутренний голос.
Prof. Wu Hung Delivers the 2018 Nuveen Lecture
Wu Hung, the Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor in Chinese Art History, Director of the Center for the Art of East Asia, and Consulting Curator of the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, delivers the 2018 Nuveen Lecture at The Divinity School: Miraculous Icons and Dynastic Time: Narrating Buddhist Images in Medieval China.
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Edmund de Waal, “The White Road”
January 12, 2016
The Getty Center, Los Angeles
“What is this thing of whiteness?” Potter and author Edmund de Waal visits the Getty Museum to talk about his new book, The White Road: Journey into an Obsession -- an obsession with porcelain that takes him to the historical roots of “white gold” in China, France, Germany, England, and the U.S. In one shocking chapter, de Waal describes his discovery that Nazi leaders also cherished porcelain and set up a manufactory next to the Dachau concentration camp. In the final portion of the talk, de Waal discusses his latest project creating an exhibition for Los Angeles, which is inspired by the work of John Cage and architect Rudolf Schindler.
Introduction by Timothy Potts, director of the Getty Museum
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2012甘肅蘭州
2012年2月13日由張掖搭火車抵達蘭州, 3天後前往天水3天2夜後返回蘭州, 於2月20搭火車前往青海省會西寧, 在蘭州去看黃河母親雕像, 白塔公園, 張掖步行街, 也吃了有名的蘭州牛肉麵.
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Провинция Ганьсу
ДУНЬХУАН / Dunhuang
Название города Дуньхуан (Dunhuang, 敦煌) в провинции Ганьсу (Gansu, 甘肃), можно перевести как «сердечный» или «сверкающий». Этот оазис в горячей пустыне Такла-Макан был когда-то воротами в Китай на Великом Шёлковом пути, в наше время он занесён в список Всемирного наследия ЮНЕСКО.
Туристы, наслышанные о достопримечательностях Дуньхуана едут полюбоваться ими, наибольшее число гостей посещает город в июне-октябре. Особенно привлекают путешественников пещеры Могао (莫高窟). Храмовый комплекс занимает 42000 квадратных метров, там 492 святилища. Возводился он так давно, что украшен в основном фресковой живописью, выполненной клеевыми красками по сухому грунту.
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ЛАНЬЧЖОУ / Lanzhou
О Ланьчжоу (Lanzhou, 兰州), многие туристы имеют только общие представления.
В периоды различных военных конфликтов город был сильно разрушен, но некоторые старинные достопримечательности Ланьчжоу сохранились. Интересен, к примеру, парк Белой пагоды с семиэтажным строением, которое украшают изображения Будды. Первая пагода в этом месте была построена ещё в XIII веке, потом не раз реставрировалась, почти заново отстраивалась, зато теперь есть на что посмотреть. В Саду водяных колёс можно посмотреть на две гигантские ирригационные машины, которые воссоздали по старинным чертежам. Ланьчжоу раньше называли городом водяных колёс – до 1952 года вдоль реки работало более 250 таких сооружений. Туристов обычно интересуют и пещеры храма Бинлин. Этот уникальный объект называют частью культурного наследия мирового масштаба. Ну и, конечно, сильное впечатление оставляет прогулка по реке Хуанхэ, которую китайцы нередко называют «ниткой сверкающего жемчуга».
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ЦЗЯЮЙГУАНЬ / Jiayuguan
Городской округ под названием Цзяюйгуань (Jiayuguan, 嘉峪关), что переводится как Застава Цзяюй. Название это не случайно, ведь именно здесь когда-то, ещё при династии Мин, закончилась западная часть Великой Китайской стены.
Этот маленький городок прирастает в туристский сезон на тысячи человек по главной причине – люди хотят посмотреть на легендарную крепость, служившую воротами для Великого Шёлкового пути. Застава Цзяюйгуань, сооружённая несколько веков назад, не только хорошо сохранилась, но и была отреставрирована так искусно, что равных ей в Китае больше нет. Там, по сути, две стены: внутренняя и дополнительная, есть ещё земляной вал, глинобитные стены и ров. Между западными и восточными воротами расположены башни высотой почти 20 метров. На одной из них вырезаны изображения небесных повелителей и буддийские тексты.
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Видео-ролик был снят во время пресс-тура по провинции Ганьсу. Режиссер - Алексей Харин, г.Хабаровск.
The Sixty-Eighth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts End as Beginning: Chinese Art and Dynastic
Wu Hung, Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor of Art History, University of Chicago. In the six-part lecture series End as Beginning: Chinese Art and Dynastic Time, Wu Hung explores the narratives of Chinese art and their relationship to artistic production while reflecting on a series of questions: How did dynastic time emerge and permeate writings on traditional Chinese art? How did it enrich and redefine itself in specific historical contexts? How did it interact with temporalities in different historical, religious, and political systems? How did narratives based on dynastic time respond to and inspire artistic creation? In the fourth lecture, “Miraculous Icons and Dynastic Time: Narrating Buddhist Images in Medieval China,” delivered on April 28, 2019, Wu Hung examines the introduction of Buddhist art during the Period of Division and the reunification of the Sui and the Tang, when “miraculous icons” became a central subject in both historical narrative and art making, and the concept of dynastic time remained, while its meaning and utility underwent constant negotiation between religious and political authorities.
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Chinese Buddhism or Han Buddhism has shaped Chinese culture in a wide variety of areas including art, politics, literature, philosophy, medicine, and material culture.
The translation of a large body of Indian Buddhist scriptures into Chinese and the inclusion of these translations together with works composed in China into a printed canon had far-reaching implications for the dissemination of Buddhism throughout the Chinese cultural sphere, including Korea, Japan, Taiwan and Vietnam. Chinese Buddhism is also marked by the interaction between Indian religions, Chinese religion, and Taoism.
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Chinese Buddhism or Han Buddhism has shaped Chinese culture in a wide variety of areas including art, politics, literature, philosophy, medicine, and material culture.
The translation of a large body of Indian Buddhist scriptures into Chinese and the inclusion of these translations together with works composed in China into a printed canon had far-reaching implications for the dissemination of Buddhism throughout the Chinese cultural sphere, including Korea, Japan, Taiwan and Vietnam. Chinese Buddhism is also marked by the interaction between Indian religions, Chinese religion, and Taoism.
Fast train from Zhangye to Lanzhou
Playing the Gu-Zheng in a Xi'an Tea house
Stanley Murashige at PCC Part 2 Chinese Painting and Calligraphy....
Full title: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy: A Disciplined Spontaneity, Part 2.
Dr. Stanley Murashige of the Art Institute of Chicago gave this talk as part of the symposium, Looking over the Wall: Understanding the Old and New China. This event, co-hosted with the East-West Center in Honolulu, was held at Portland Community College's Sylvania Campus from Oct. 18-20, 2007.
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The Tang dynasty (;Chinese: 唐朝) or the Tang Empire was an imperial dynasty of China, preceded by the Sui dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. Historians generally regard the Tang as a high point in Chinese civilization, and a golden age of cosmopolitan culture. Tang territory, acquired through the military campaigns of its early rulers, rivaled that of the Han dynasty. The Tang capital at Chang'an (present-day Xi'an) was the most populous city in the world in its day.
The Lǐ family (李) founded the dynasty, seizing power during the decline and collapse of the Sui Empire. The dynasty was briefly interrupted when Empress Wu Zetian seized the throne, proclaiming the Second Zhou dynasty (690–705) and becoming the only Chinese empress regnant. In two censuses of the 7th and 8th centuries, the Tang records estimated the population by number of registered households at about 50 million people. Yet, even when the central government was breaking down and unable to compile an accurate census of the population in the 9th century, it is estimated that the population had grown by then to about 80 million people. With its large population base, the dynasty was able to raise professional and conscripted armies of hundreds of thousands of troops to contend with nomadic powers in dominating Inner Asia and the lucrative trade-routes along the Silk Road. Various kingdoms and states paid tribute to the Tang court, while the Tang also conquered or subdued several regions which it indirectly controlled through a protectorate system. Besides political hegemony, the Tang also exerted a powerful cultural influence over neighboring East Asian states such as those in Japan and Korea.
The Tang dynasty was largely a period of progress and stability in the first half of the dynasty's rule, until the An Lushan Rebellion and the decline of central authority in the later half of the dynasty. Like the previous Sui dynasty, the Tang dynasty maintained a civil-service system by recruiting scholar-officials through standardized examinations and recommendations to office. The rise of regional military governors known as jiedushi during the 9th century undermined this civil order. Chinese culture flourished and further matured during the Tang era; it is traditionally considered the greatest age for Chinese poetry. Two of China's most famous poets, Li Bai and Du Fu, belonged to this age, as did many famous painters such as Han Gan, Zhang Xuan, and Zhou Fang. Scholars of this period compiled a rich variety of historical literature, as well as encyclopedias and geographical works. The adoption of the title Tängri Qaghan by the Tang Emperor Taizong in addition to his title as emperor was eastern Asia's first simultaneous kingship.Many notable innovations occurred under the Tang, including the development of woodblock printing. Buddhism became a major influence in Chinese culture, with native Chinese sects gaining prominence. However, in the 840s the Emperor Wuzong of Tang persecuted Buddhism, which subsequently declined in influence. Although the dynasty and central government had gone into decline by the 9th century, art and culture continued to flourish. The weakened central government largely withdrew from managing the economy, but the country's mercantile affairs stayed intact and commercial trade continued to thrive regardless. However, agrarian rebellions in the latter half of the 9th century resulted in damaging atrocities such as the Guangzhou massacre of 878-879.