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Pages: 573
Authors: Xinjiang Rong
Categories: History
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In Eighteen Lectures on Dunhuang, Rong Xinjiang provides an accessible overview of Dunhuang studies, an academic field that emerged following the discovery of a
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Authors: Zhao Lu
Categories: History
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Spanning antiquity until the present, Zhao Lu analyses the eclectic and fictitious representations of Confucius that have been widely celebrated by communities
Disciplinary Rituals in Dunhuang Buddhism
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Authors: Ru Zhan
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-06-19 - Publisher: BRILL

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Drawing on Dunhuang manuscripts and the latest scholarship in Dunhuang and Buddhist Studies, this translation analyzes Buddhist monasticism via such topics as t
The Compensations of Plunder
Language: en
Pages: 357
Authors: Justin M. Jacobs
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-07-06 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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From the 1790s until World War I, Western museums filled their shelves with art and antiquities from around the world. These objects are now widely regarded as
Visualizing Dunhuang
Language: en
Pages: 401
Authors: Wei-Cheng Lin
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Situated at an important juncture within the network of silk routes from China through central Asia, the oasis city of Dunhuang was an ancient site of Buddhist