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• A place in: Silk Road · 9 places
• A place in: How Belief Travelled · 8 places

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• located at Dunhuang — The cave complex lies roughly 25 km south-east of the Dunhuang oasis town, whose commercial and garrison function explains why patronage on this scale existed there at all.
• located near Dunhuang — The caves are cut into a cliff about 25 km south-east of the town, endowed by the merchants and officials whose traffic passed through it.
• evidences Religious syncretism at contact points — Mogao's painting fuses Han Chinese pictorial tradition with Indian and Gandharan conventions and later Turkic and Tibetan elements — a thousand-year record of a tradition being restated in local visual language.