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light of Buddha

taken inside the DunHuang Cave Digital Exhibition Center, Dunhuang city, Gansu Province, China

 

the two golden curved structures on both sides are two dome theaters in which visitors will experience Buddhist Arts in the seven selected grottoes done in different periods in the two thousand long history in immersive way with the latest virtual reality technologies.

 

The Mogao Caves or Mogao Grottoes (Chinese: 莫高窟; pinyin: Mògāo kū), also known as the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas (Chinese: 千佛洞; pinyin: qiān fó dòng), form a system of 492 temples 25 km (16 mi) southeast of the center of Dunhuang, an oasis strategically located at a religious and cultural crossroads on the Silk Road, in Gansu province, China. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mogao_Caves#History)

 

image re-touched in December, 2015

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Uploaded on August 8, 2015
Taken on July 15, 2014