Isabelle Charleux, Director of Researches at CNRS (National Centre for Scientific Research – Group Societies, Religions, Laicities, EPHE/PSL), Paris, examines how Buddhist iconography, imagery, narratives, themes, and styles were used and appropriated for particular needs in the Mongol world from the 16th to the 21st century. Eric Huntington, the T.T. & W.F. Chao Assistant Professor of Transnational Asian Studies at Rice University, acts as moderator. This lecture is part of the "Transnationality and the Silk Roads" webinar series co-hosted by the Dunhuang Foundation and Rice University's Department of Transnational Asian Studies. Special thanks to Professors Shih-shan Susan Huang and Eric Huntington of Rice University for programming this series.