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Buddhist Arts
Image Databases
Buddhist Murals of Kucha on the Northern Silk Road
The Buddhist cave complexes in the region of Kucha, located on the northern Silk Road (in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, People’s Republic of China) house impressive wall paintings dating approximately from the 5th to 10th centuries
Digital Dunhuang 数字敦煌
Images and panoramic exploration of the Dunhuang caves produced by the Dunhuang Academy. Website is mostly in Chinese. Warning: Auto-play music.
Himalayan Art Resources
An online educational resource with over 45,000 images of Himalayan art, from museum, university and private collections throughout the world.
Huntington Photographic Archive of Buddhist and Asian Art
The archive can be browse by iconography, location, material, dynasty/period, and religious category. Each picture has detailed information and can be saved for research use.
Siddham: The Asia Inscriptions Database
Focused on Central and Southeast Asian inscriptions found in the period of the Guptas (circa 320-550).
The Ashoka Library
"...contains an edition of Ashoka’s inscriptions." Includes images of the original stone inscriptions where available, as well as the transliteration of the original text and English translations.
