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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

Images of thangka paintings from the Dharmapala Thangka Centre.

Images and panoramic exploration of the Dunhuang caves produced by the Dunhuang Academy. Website is mostly in Chinese. Warning: Auto-play music.

An online educational resource with over 45,000 images of Himalayan art, from museum, university and private collections throughout the world.

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.

A free online searchable database of jātakas in Indian texts and art.

Focused on Central and Southeast Asian inscriptions found in the period of the Guptas (circa 320-550).

Archived collection of images from Sanchi stupas.

"...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.