The Metropolitan Museum of Art - One Hundred Buffaloes

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Buddhism along the Silk Road

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Thousands of years of trade and invasion brought Buddhist monks into contact with merchants and nomadic peoples in Central Asia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India. This short video, produced in conjunction with the exhibition Buddhism along the Silk Road: 5th–8th Century, shows how these interactions occurred.

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One Hundred Buffaloes

Unidentified Artist

Artist:: Formerly Attributed to Jiangcan (Chinese, active ca. 1200)
Period:: Song dynasty (960–1279)
Date:: 13th century
Culture:: China
Medium:: Handscroll; ink on paper
Dimensions:: 12 1/2 x 87 5/16 in. (31.8 x 221.8 cm)
Classification:: Paintings
Credit Line:: Rogers Fund, 1918
Accession Number:: 18.124.4

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