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Chinese Buddhist architecture reflects the artistic influences from Greece and India carried by the merchant traders carrying commerical goods and missionaries traveling through the Buddhist centres on the Silk Route through Gandhara and Dunhuang, Khotan and Kucha. Before the influence of Buddhism, Chinese shrines did not have statues and paintings of deities. The Chinese adapted Indian Buddhist forms of worship and structure for temple and monastery architecture, transforming the landscape in both of cities and in remote mountains.[1]