Located at a pivotal point of traffic between the East and the West, Tunhuang has long served as a resting place for high-ranking Buddhist priests expounding Dharma in the east, or Chinese Buddhist monks collecting Dharma in the west.
敦煌的地理位置，是兩千年來東方通往西方的交通要道，古代西域高僧東來弘法，或中土僧人前往西域求佛法，以及往來商旅，都必經敦煌。