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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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Dunhuang and the Silk Road Merit, Opulence and the Buddhist Network of Wealth A Collaborative Research and Technical Project Sponsored by North Western University and the Dunhuang Research Academy.
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John Fielding,
CEO
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Silk Road Communications uses a variety of means to gather intelligence on the competitive, economic, financial, social and cultural conditions your business will meet in the China market.
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Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk
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The Silk Road became the vehicle of Buddhist missionaries and the means of introducing Buddhism into China.
By the 5th century, Dunhuang had become an important center of Buddhism on the Silk Road.
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Zhang Xian Qian,
Ex-Olympic Swimmer
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The Silk Road starts at Chang'An or today's Xian, the capital of Shaanxi Province.
Travel the ancient Silk Road from Xian through China's "Wild West" to Kashgar on the Chinese western border in Central Asia.
The Silk Road exhibition at the Shanghai Museum last year showed 142 items from Xinjiang excavations.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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This exotic tour traces the fabled Silk Road from Xian to Kashgar and includes the rarely visited Buddhist cave complex of sculptures and paintings at Tianshui, Xian, and the fascinating Sunday bazaar at Kashgar.
In 1907 European explorers rediscovered the Buddhist caves on the Ancient Silk Road that led from China throug Persia and finally to the West.
Archaeological finds from the Kazakh region where the northern route of The Silk Road ran show early trade ties with Europe, China and Persia.
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Astrid Schuhmann,
Backpacker
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Turkmenistan is located on the great overland routes of the Silk road- there are 1000's of kilometres to be covered from Turkey to the Great Wall of China.
The overland Silk Road fell into decline and merchants found it safer and cheaper to use the maritime route into China.
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