Boeddhistische fresco's

China's ancient Buddhist frescoes fading into history - In the cool gloom of an arching sandstone cavern in northwestern China, medics wielding syringes work to save a patient in critical condition. Under the light of small lamps, technicians painstakingly apply a liquid bonding agent to stabilise a crumbling 1,000-year-old fresco, part of the striking Mogao Grottoes Buddhist mural complex in remote Gansu province. AFP 28-nov-2007