IDP is a ground-breaking international collaboration to make information and images of all manuscripts, paintings, textiles and artefacts from Dunhuang and archaeological sites of the Eastern Silk Road freely available on the Internet and to encourage their use through educational and research programmes. The Dunhuang manuscripts date to between the 5 th and 11 th centuries A.D., and were sealed up in a chamber in a cave, hidden for about 900 years. The Dunhuang Manuscripts are a cache of around 20,000 important scrolls found in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang. This category is for manuscripts (in Chinese and various other languages) discovered at the Mogao Caves near Dunhuang in modern Gansu, China. A Snapshot of Dunhuang Studies, circa 2016 Imre Galambos The Dunhuang manuscripts were discovered in the summer of 1900 in a sealed-off cave within the Buddhist cave-temple complex (also known as Qianfodong, or ‘Thousand Buddha Caves’), at Mogao, near the city of Dunhuang …

Dating from late 4th to early 11th centuries, the manuscripts include works ranging from history and mathematics to folk songs and dance. For example, in manuscript Or.8210/S.2136 (Figure 1A), a fine copy of the Mahāpari- Most of these manuscripts are held at the British Library in London and the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris. However, the fact that there are collections of almost equal size within China is hardly known outside of that country. The majority of the manuscripts are in Chi… of space, the inserted character is often smaller in size. The Dunhuang manuscripts are a cache of important religious and secular documents discovered in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China, in the early 20th century. What was taken afterwards In 1909 Pelliot held an exhibition in Beijing of a selection of the Dunhuang manuscripts. The story of the dispersal of the Dunhuang manuscripts and their subsequent digitisation.

There are also many religious documents, most of which are Buddhist, but other religions including Daoism, Nestorian Christianity and Manichaeismare also represented. When the Library Cave, known as Cave 17 from the Mogao Cave Complex at Dunhuang, China, was opened in 1900, several tons of an estimated 50,000 manuscripts, scrolls, booklets and paintings on silk, hemp and paper were found literally stuffed into it.This treasure trove of writings was collected between the 9th and 10th centuries CE, by Tang and Song dynasty Buddhist monks who … The re-discovery of these precious documents, however, was made completely by accident. The International Dunhuang Project: The Silk Road Online. 3.

Tibetan manuscripts, which he guessed were from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, in two caves in the northern part of the Dunhuang cave complex decorated with Tibetan style murals with tantric subject matter." CORRECTION MARKS IN THE DUNHUANG MANUSCRIPTS 195 A. Or.8210/S.2136 B. Or.8210/S.2295 C. Or.8210/S.2067 Figure 1: Insertion of characters in smaller script between full-sized characters. The largest collections of Tibetan manuscripts from Dunhuang are in France and England.