Traditional founding of the first cave at Mogao

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1. Story
2. Tradition assigns the cutting of the first cave at the Mogao site near Dunhuang to 366 CE, following a monk's vision. The date comes from later inscriptions and textual tradition rather than from independent dating of the earliest surviving cave, and is best treated as traditional. What is not in doubt is that carving and painting continued at the site from roughly the fourth to the fourteenth century.
3. Knowledge
4. Dunhuang
5. Buddhism
6. Mogao Caves
7. Silk Road religious corridor
8. Traditional founding of the first cave at Mogao
9. Connections
10. Mogao Caves
11. Dunhuang
12. Buddhism
13. Silk Road religious corridor
14. Religious syncretism at contact points
15. Dunhuang
16. Dunhuang
17. Buddhism
18. First cave cut at Mogao (traditional date)
19. The Dunhuang Diamond Sutra is printed
20. Mogao Cave 17 is sealed
21. Wang Yuanlu opens Mogao Cave 17
22. The Dunhuang manuscripts are dispersed
23. Mogao Caves inscribed on the World Heritage List
24. Traditional founding of the first cave at Mogao
25. Northern Tarim route
26. Southern Tarim route
27. Mogao Caves
28. Mogao Caves
29. First cave cut at Mogao (traditional date)
30. The Sogdian Ancient Letters are abandoned west of Dunhuang
31. Mogao Cave 17 is sealed
32. Wang Yuanlu opens Mogao Cave 17
33. Silk Road religious corridor
34. Buddhism attested in Han China
35. Traditional founding of the first cave at Mogao
36. Sogdian merchant networks
37. Silk Road religious corridor
38. Xuanzang
39. Mogao Caves
40. First cave cut at Mogao (traditional date)
41. Xuanzang travels to India and back
42. The Dunhuang Diamond Sutra is printed
43. Gandhara
44. Ashoka (Ashoka Maurya)
45. Ashoka's bilingual Greek-Aramaic inscription at Kandahar
46. Council at Pataliputra and the despatch of Buddhist missions (traditional account)
47. Buddhism attested in Han China
48. Anthropomorphic Buddha images appear in Gandhara and Mathura
49. Traditional founding of the first cave at Mogao
50. Xuanzang's overland journey to India and return
51. Construction of Borobudur under Shailendra patronage
52. Buddhism
53. Church of the East (Nestorian Christianity)
54. Xuanzang
55. Dunhuang
56. Indian Ocean maritime trade network
57. Ashoka's bilingual Greek-Aramaic inscription at Kandahar
58. Buddhism attested in Han China
59. Traditional founding of the first cave at Mogao
60. Xuanzang's overland journey to India and return
61. Alopen received at the Tang court
62. The Xi'an stele is erected
63. Evidence
64. 492 cells and cave sanctuaries at Mogao, situated at a strategic point on the Silk Route at a crossroads of trade and religious exchange, contain statues and wall paintings spanning about a thousand years of Buddhist art (4th-14th centuries); inscribed on the World Heritage List in December 1987.