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Lesson tHREE Journey on the Silk Road: Dunhuang Presented by STUDENT CONTEST: Choose any geographic location along the Silk Road in China and do a cultural comparison. Create a submission that compares the culture in the geographic area you have chosen to your own experiences living in Oklahoma. Your submission can come in the form of an essay, a photo collage, a video or an original work of art. Entries can be submitted digitally by visiting http://bit.ly/2mhNJaG. Students can mail submissions to: Newspapers in Education | P.O. Box 25125 | Oklahoma City, OK 73125-0125 (Mailed entries should include a Student Entry Form that can be accessed online). ALL ENTRIES ARE DUE APRIL 30TH, 2017. All students that enter this contest will be entered into a drawing to win a $250 Visa Gift Card at the end of the semester. The winning student’s teacher will receive a $500 Visa Gift Card. The next stop on our journey along the Silk Road is Dunhuang. This city is an ancient oasis in the middle of the Gobi desert and was once the western end of the great wall and a cross roads along the northern and southern routes of the Silk Road. The name Dunhuang means “blazing beacon” and is indicative of its role as one of the outposts and beacon towers along the great wall. The area is best known for the Mogao Caves, ancient city ruins, and towering sand dunes. The Mogao caves are also known as the Thousand Buddha Grottoes and began as meditation and prayer rooms carved into the mountain starting in the 4th century AD. Over hundreds of years, the caves became larger and more complex with large Buddhist statues carved out of the rock and beautiful paintings and murals from floor to ceiling. Due to the dry desert climate many of the paintings have been preserved to today. In addition, in 1900, a library of manuscripts dating back to the 5th century was found preserved in the caves providing insight into the lives of the Buddhist monks who lived there. Near Dunhuang is Crescent Lake, which is a desert oasis surrounded by towering sand dunes. Further out from Dunhuang is the ruins of the Yumen pass. The pass was built in 111 BC during the Han dynasty and at that time it made up the western most end of the great wall and offered entry into China. ouci.ou.edu Would you like to experience Dunhuang without leaving the area? Visit ouci.ou.edu/summercamp.

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