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Image 8: This mural commemorates the victory of Zhang Yichao, the Dunhuang-born general who drove the Tibetan occupiers out of Dunhuang in 848. He went on to rule Dunhuang as a semi-autonomous state. Dunhuang, Cave 156, Late Tang dynasty.
©The J. Paul Getty Trust. Photograph by Wu Jian, 1999.


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A mural commemorating the victory of Zhang Yichao

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