A traditional sheepskin coat blows in the wind in Turtkul, Uzbekistan, on a highway that follows the ancient Silk Road. It wasn’t a single road but a network of commercial routes that once ...

Vajrayana, Mahayana, and Theravada are the most practiced forms of Buddhism today but there were a lot of changes within the Mahayaha practice when the expansion of Buddhism crossed the Silk Road.

For carefree 1960s and ‘70s Western kids, that meant clambering onto a ... inspired the Lonely Planet guidebooks. The days of Silk Road traders journeying between Europe and Asia were fading ...

At the time of the burials, Bactria was on the Silk Road that linked China with the West, a region crisscrossed by traders carrying goods, ideas, and religions. Sarianidi himself believed that the ...

Hot on the heels of successful hardback and paperback (outside India) editions of Ram Gidoomal’s memoir MY SILK ROAD: THE ...