Turpan, Xinjiang, China

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The Ancient Capital and the Buddha Caves, Turpan, China travel blog
The Ancient Capital and the Buddha Caves
May 6, 2009

Sun Wu Kong, the Monkey King of Chinese legend, was coming through XinJiang on his way to fetch back Buddhist sutras from India, when he and his master Xuan Zang were blocked by an impenetrable wall of flame rising from the desert. Not that an ...

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Ghost City, Turpan, China travel blog
Ghost City
May 5, 2009

... probably housed tens of thousands of Buddhist monks, centuries before Islam made its way along the Silk Road to XinJiang. Inside, a few scratched Buddha bodies decorate the niches in the main temple, though their heads have been souvenired, perhaps by ...

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The Silk Road: Turpan
The Silk Road: Turpan's Mummies and Ancient Cities
Nov 10, 2007

... , and mythical beasts, for the dead to take with them into their next world (though now these are housed in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Museum in Urumqi). At the museum in Urumqi, I stopped to visit more ancient mummies, as they capitvated me: ...

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Train to Turpan, Train to Turpan, China travel blog
Train to Turpan
Nov 8, 2007

Train through the Taklimatan desert to Turpan from Kashgar.

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