Full text PDF of The Silk Road, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Summer 2008)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

From the Editor’s Desktop: Museums, Entrepreneurship and the Politics of Cultural Identity

ARTICLES

China and Islamic Civilization: Exchange of Techniques and Scientific Ideas
George Saliba

On the Road: Caravan Routes of Iran
Frank Harold, with photographs by Ruth Harold

Some Buddhist Finds from Khotan: Materials in the Collections of the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
Julia Elikhina

The Buddhist Monuments of Adjina-tepa
Vera Fominikh

Mediating the Power of the Dharma: the Mongols’ Approaches to Reviving Buddhism in Mongolia
Vesna A. Wallace

Tricky Representations: Buddhism in the Cinema during Socialism in Mongolia
Manduhai Buyandelger

The Tea Horse Road
Jeff Fuchs