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...hitherto undisclosed Chinese Buddhist chapel of very ancient origin has been discovered by Mr. Langdon Warner, the first American to ever undertake, on behalf of an American university, a search for ancient art in western China. Mr. Warner was formerly Director of the Pennsylvania museum, but is now a member of the Fine Arts Faculty of the University and on the staff of the Fogg Art Museum. He has just returned from a year's trip on foot along the 3000 year old Indo-Chinese route...
...high cliff overlooking the trade route he discovered a Buddhist chapel dating back to the 5th century A. D. British and French expeditions which were active in China before the war had failed to discover this chapel. It is, with one exception, the westernmost example of North Wei culture. More of its origin Mr, Warner believes can be determined by the interpretation by other authorities at Harvard of a stone slab found nearby and which he brought back with...
...route in the world", Mr. Warner went on, "extends from the northern part of India through a narrow province of modern China to the valley of the Yellow River. This province, Kansu, is where we did most of our work, finding traces of Chinese art, influenced by the Indian Buddhist traders who brought ponies and jade to exchange for the wool and skins of the Tartars. This art is in the form of statues and frescoes left in caves, shrines and temples from the border of Turkestan to Loyang, where the Chinese civilization of that day was centered...
...Pelliot, the famous Frenchman, had explored this route before, so that we hardly expected to discover anything new. One cave, however, that we found behind a shrine, was filled with nearly perfect carving which covered every inch of the surface. It was very early Buddhist work, and consequently most important. A statue in the cave, of one of Buddha's attendant gods, is one of the few things I have brought back with me and, by all odds, the greatest single prize of the trip...
...Gurdjieff Institute," he continued, "conducts along with its other activities, a set of special exercises, which we call 'movement', but which appear as dances. Mr. Gurdjieff didn't invent the dances, he discovered them. They consist of ancient Greek, Egyptian and Buddhist and early Christian sacred classics--4000 all told...