Going Out West
“Exchange of Culture and Integration of Beauty
All rivers run into the sea. In the flourishing Han and Tang Dynasties, the Silk Road was opened and became prosperous. The Chinese and Western cultural exchange with Buddhism as the carrier is handed down from generation to generation, setting a model of world civilisation exchanges. Two passes in Dunhuang as the bright pearls on the Silk Road compose the song of millennium years of Chinese and Western cultural exchange. Kumarajiva, Faxian, Xuanzang and other Buddhist masters had left footprints on the passes in the deserts. The Dunhuang culture of openness and inclusiveness, noble aestheticism, goodness and honesty serves as the cultural ambassador on the Silk Road and the evergreen tree of culture of exchanges and common conclusion between friendly nations.”
