Dunhuang manuscripts refer to a wide variety of religious and secular documents in Chinese and other languages that were discovered at the Mogao Caves of ...

Dunhuang Manuscripts, the book, is an introduction to medieval China and the silk road focusing on the content, form, and significance of the manuscripts ...

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Oct 9, 2013 · ... Dunhuang, on the edge of the Gobi Desert in western China. The chamber was filled with more than five hundred cubic feet of bundled manuscripts.

Jul 13, 2016 · The manuscript, it seems, was a collection of copies and notes carried by the pilgrim throughout his travels rather than a formal document ...

The term “Dunhuang manuscripts” refers to the tens of thousands of manuscripts, dating from the 5th to the 11th centuries, discovered in the early 20th century ...

Sep 30, 2022 · Navigating the Dunhuang Manuscripts Databases. The Mogao Caves nearby Dunhuang were one of the most exceptional discoveries of the 20th century.

Although the Dunhuang collection contains upwards of 50,000 individual manuscripts spanning some seven centuries, the bulk of the Dunhuang documents date to the ...

The manuscripts, which were in a variety of languages, the most common of which were Chinese and Tibetan, are now held at the Bibliothèque Nationale and the ...