Dunhuang Manuscript Culture: End of the First Millennium

by Imre Galambos

"Dunhuang Manuscript Culture" explores the world of Chinese manuscripts from ninth-tenth century Dunhuang, an oasis city along the network of pre-modern routes known today collectively as the Silk Roads. The manuscripts have been discovered in 1900 in a sealed-off side-chamber of a Buddhist cave temple, where they had lain undisturbed for for almost nine hundred years. The discovery comprised tens of thousands of texts, written in over twenty different...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110723492
• ISBN13: 9783110723496
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"