The Mahasattva jataka fresco illustrates Prince Sattva offering himself to a starving tigress and her cubs. The jataka starts from the top centre with Prince Sattva and his two brothers looking down at the tigress and her seven cubs. The story continues on the right. The prince kneels and pierces his neck with a bamboo stick, and then dives with an outstretched left arm from the cliff to feed the tigress. Then his remains are found by his saddened family. The Mogao Caves, or Mogao Grottoes (Chinese: mògao ku, also known as the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas and Dunhuang Caves) form a system of 492 temples 25 km (15.5 miles) southeast of the center of Dunhuang, an oasis strategically located at a religious and cultural crossroads on the Silk Road, in Gansu province, China. The caves contain some of the finest examples of Buddhist art spanning a period of 1,000 years. The first caves were dug out in 366 AD as places of Buddhist meditation and worship. The Mogao Caves are the best known of

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The Mahasattva jataka fresco illustrates Prince Sattva offering himself to a starving tigress and her cubs. The jataka starts from the top centre with Prince Sattva and his two brothers looking down at the tigress and her seven cubs. The story continues on the right. The prince kneels and pierces his neck with a bamboo stick, and then dives with an outstretched left arm from the cliff to feed the tigress. Then his remains are found by his saddened family. The Mogao Caves, or Mogao Grottoes (Chinese: mògao ku, also known as the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas and Dunhuang Caves) form a system of 492 temples 25 km (15.5 miles) southeast of the center of Dunhuang, an oasis strategically located at a religious and cultural crossroads on the Silk Road, in Gansu province, China. The caves contain some of the finest examples of Buddhist art spanning a period of 1,000 years. The first caves were dug out in 366 AD as places of Buddhist meditation and worship. The Mogao Caves are the best known of

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