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Buddhist Scriptures from the Western Xia regime (1038-1227) displayed in Xi’an, on Jan 8. [Photo/xinhuanet.com] |
Xi’an city, Shaanxi province, put on an exhibition in its Daming Palace National Heritage Park, Jan 7, with several Buddhist relics from the Western Xia regime (1038-1227), xinhuanet.com has reported.
The exhibition, which will run till April 30, covers Buddhist Scriptures, paintings, building elements, clay sculptures, and statues. It showed Xixia’s profound culture and its role on the ancient Silk Road, which reaches all the way to West Asia.
Xi’xia – Western Xia – was founded by the Dangxiang ethnic group with its capital in today’s Yinchuan city, Ningxia province. It co-existed with the dynasties of Liao (960-1125), Song (960-1279) and Jin (1115-1234), and it occupied parts of today’s Shaanxi, Gansu and Qinghai provinces, and Inner Mongolia autonomous region.
Edited by Brian Salter
