“Tea Harvest in China” shows trade ministers evaluating local crops at a trading center.
Perhaps Tando’s “Jade Ring Green” is among the baskets of this year’s crop.
Dune regions of the desert proved insurmountable obstacles to trade and forced caravans to skirt the northern and southern fringes of the Taklamakan.
Tantric symbol of the sun embraced by the moon captures the essence of the enlightenment energies made possible by the “sacred embrace.”
This Bon diety is much akin to “The Tark” who carries the dark elemental and primal aspects of the Bon religion.
Street sellers offer their wares at a typical trading center.
Visitors still throng to the “Art Gallery of the Desert” at the Mo Gao Caves near Dun Huang, China. In scene 1 of
“Khan Tengri” (the sequel to “Taklamakan”) Tando meets with three mysterious visitors in the alcove created by these magnificent Buddha carvings.
“Kizil” meaning “Red” is a good name for the land about the famous “Kizil Caves” where Nala undergoes her Dakini initiation ceremony
in “Taklamakan.”
Monks in robes of burgundy and ochre at a veneration ceremony.
