VIDEO: Creating Replicas of Buddhist Cave Temples at the Mogao Grottoes

Full-size replicas of the Mogao cave temples allow people unable to visit the caves themselves (near Dunhuang, China) to experience Buddhist art from the fourth to 14th centuries.

Learn how artists from the Dunhuang Academy’s Fine Arts Institute create the replica caves.

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