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

 

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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Gansu, China

Date: 2008-9-26 3:33:00 by chinatravel Tags: Gansu

In these over-publicized times of China's new railroad to Tibet, one might be better off avoiding the tourist circus than rnning away with it. Indeed, unless the reader has a certain fondness for overbooked hotels and intrusive, red hat-wearing tour groups, Lhasa is hardly the Tibetan delight that travel agencies continue to bill it as.

Fortunately, lesser-traveled Gansu province in nor

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