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LA museum recreates China's caves

By Associated Press in Los Angeles | China Daily | Updated: 2016-05-07 08:33

For a thousand years, China's Cave Temples of Dunhuang were a popular traveler's resting stop, marketplace and religious shrine on the fabled Silk Road. Now, they are coming to Los Angeles, both in spirit and reality.

In an exhibition curators say is unprecedented, three full-scale, hand-painted replica caves have been erected on the Getty Center museum's hilltop campus overlooking LA.

Nearby, in an adjacent gallery, the museum has assembled more than 40 spectacularly preserved and priceless artifacts taken from one of the caves, and in still another gallery visitors can take a 3-D virtual reality tour of on an actual cave in China, this one filled with life-size sculptures of the Buddha and his entourage.

LA museum recreates China's caves

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