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First cave cut at Mogao (traditional date)

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A stele of 698 records that the monk Yuezun cut the first cave in the cliff south-east of Dunhuang in 366. The date rests on that later inscription rather than contemporary evidence, and should be read as tradition rather than established fact.

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  1. Story
  2. A stele of 698 records that the monk Yuezun cut the first cave in the cliff south-east of Dunhuang in 366. The date rests on that later inscription rather than contemporary evidence, and should be read as tradition rather than established fact.
  3. Knowledge
  4. Dunhuang
  5. Buddhism
  6. Mogao Caves
  7. First cave cut at Mogao (traditional date)
  8. Connections
  9. Mogao Caves
  10. Buddhism
  11. Dunhuang
  12. Religious syncretism at contact points
  13. Dunhuang
  14. Dunhuang
  15. Buddhism
  16. First cave cut at Mogao (traditional date)
  17. The Dunhuang Diamond Sutra is printed
  18. Mogao Cave 17 is sealed
  19. Wang Yuanlu opens Mogao Cave 17
  20. The Dunhuang manuscripts are dispersed
  21. Mogao Caves inscribed on the World Heritage List
  22. Traditional founding of the first cave at Mogao
  23. Sogdian merchant networks
  24. Silk Road religious corridor
  25. Xuanzang
  26. Mogao Caves
  27. First cave cut at Mogao (traditional date)
  28. Xuanzang travels to India and back
  29. The Dunhuang Diamond Sutra is printed
  30. Gandhara
  31. Ashoka (Ashoka Maurya)
  32. Ashoka's bilingual Greek-Aramaic inscription at Kandahar
  33. Council at Pataliputra and the despatch of Buddhist missions (traditional account)
  34. Buddhism attested in Han China
  35. Anthropomorphic Buddha images appear in Gandhara and Mathura
  36. Traditional founding of the first cave at Mogao
  37. Xuanzang's overland journey to India and return
  38. Construction of Borobudur under Shailendra patronage
  39. Northern Tarim route
  40. Southern Tarim route
  41. Mogao Caves
  42. Mogao Caves
  43. First cave cut at Mogao (traditional date)
  44. The Sogdian Ancient Letters are abandoned west of Dunhuang
  45. Mogao Cave 17 is sealed
  46. Wang Yuanlu opens Mogao Cave 17
  47. Silk Road religious corridor
  48. Buddhism attested in Han China
  49. Traditional founding of the first cave at Mogao
  50. Evidence
  51. 492 decorated cave temples with roughly 45,000 square metres of murals and over 2,000 painted sculptures, cut between the fourth and fourteenth centuries, together with the manuscript hoard of Cave 17.
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