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