Interrelation of the Substantive Texts of the Northern Dynasties’ Sutras with Mural Art in the Caves of the City of Dunhuang
In this article, we attempted to establish the origin and history of Dunhuang and the confirmation that paintings and frescos are visualization of the Buddhist writings and literatures. Also, in this article, we tried to consider the initial period of the distribution of Buddhism in the East, processes of the formation and development of groups of translators and copyists of Buddist sutras; evidential texts to wall paintings and frescos of Dunhuang are considered. Chinese scientists Shang Yongqi and Tang Yongtong studied the history, scale and work of groups of translators, Ge Zhaoguang and Wang Qing deepened the analysis of the level of the prayer in a ritual of the Buddhist sacred writing. However, they did not consider spiritual experience of the translation process and connection of this experience with the concrete contents of the frescos of Duanhuang.The main thing in our analysis is to find out these connections. As a result of consideration of the submitted materials, the author concludes that there is an intertextual interrelation of frescoes and images in Duanhyang caves with the basic texts of Buddhist religion. Conclusion is made that they are interrelated in the formation of a diversified system of spreading Buddhism in China.