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0325 On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks : vol.1
On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks : vol.1 / Page 325 (Color Image)

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[Photo] 81. INTERIOR OF TEMPLE CELLA, ‘CAVES OF THE THOUSAND BUDDHAS’, SHOWING PLATFORM WITH STUCCO IMAGES AND PAINTINGS ON WEST WALL AND CEILING.

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doi: 10.20676/00000214
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les still retained plentiful
ed continuance here of the
Graeco-Buddhist art had
Buddhism transmitted to

often the upper portions of
destroyed by vandal hands
dern times, the contrast of
out still more clearly the
elsewhere as well as the
ery and the harmonious
In the profusion of gild-
rived, as well as in the
those colossal figures of
Buddhist art well known
est Frontier and the huge
Khotan and beyond.

ps, was the wealth and
old paintings, throughout
ver the plastered walls of
y of the smaller ones. For
in remarkably good pre-
ue to the extreme aridity
ute dryness of the rock-cut
and tenacity with which
lings to the conglomerate
r the sake of its convenient
of one small shrine all the
empera.

ges the mural decoration
arge Bodhisattvas or Bud-