One of these newly opened sites, the Tuyugou Grottoes, is located in the city of Turpan, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. This complex, built around the fifth century, boasts 157 caves carved into ...

Vajrayana, Mahayana, and Theravada are the most practiced forms of Buddhism today but there were a lot of changes within the Mahayaha practice when the expansion of Buddhism crossed the Silk Road.

a key stopping point on the old Silk Road. The city was the site of a government massacre in 2005, when military forces fired into a crowd of people protesting the country’s economic and ...

Once a major world religion, Manichaeism spread across the Silk Road, blending elements of Christianity, Buddhism, and ...

An aerial drone photo taken on April 5, 2025 shows a view of the Ya'er Lake Grottoes in the city of Turpan, northwest China's ...

Despite calling for the death penalty for drug dealers, president Donald Trump pardoned Ross "Dread Pirate Roberts" Ulbricht, the man behind the seminal online drug marketplace Silk Road ...

The May 5 event "Silk Road Connection" is to feature performances by local band Kyle Dillingham & Horseshoe Road and Chinese ...

After a Silk Road "customer service" employee was arrested ... While hacktivists applaud Ulbricht as a savior of the people, prosecutors demanded the maximum sentence for the creator of the ...

At a time when the global political architecture is being reshaped—particularly against the backdrop of the new challenges ...

The vibrant dances once performed along the ancient Silk Road, the centuries-old grape cultivation and the heartfelt ...