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Dun Huang: A prayer for Love and Beauty.

Date: 2011-7-12 5:21:00 by jroberts Tags: Dunhuang murals grottoes Buddhism Hexi Corridor Jade Gate White Horse Pagoda Singing Sands Remnants of Silk Road towers and graneries Of Great Wall in Gansu corridoreat i

The Jade Gate Route on the Silk Road

 

My mother died in February, on the eve of Spring Festival fireworks.  I promised myself a journey that I would dedicate to her.  Many writers and others have dated a turning point in their life at the death of a parent. I never realized how visceral my connection to my biological mother was, until her passage.  A Buddhist nun in Philadel

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