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Dunhuang Museum is a museum in Dunhuang, Gansu, China. It contains a number of Chinese and Tibetan items such as manuscripts from Cave 17 of Mogao Caves, and domestic items.[1]

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Dunhuang Museum

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Dunhuang Museum is a museum in Dunhuang, Gansu, China. It contains a number of Chinese and Tibetan items such as manuscripts from Cave 17 of Mogao Caves...

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Dunhuang

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Dunhuang (listen) is a county-level city in northwestern Gansu Province, Western China. According to the 2010 Chinese census, the city has a population...

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Mogao Caves

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form a system of 500 temples 25 km (16 mi) southeast of the center of Dunhuang, an oasis located at a religious and cultural crossroads on the Silk Road...

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Dunhuang manuscripts

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Dunhuang manuscripts refer to a wide variety of religious and secular documents (mostly manuscripts, but also including some woodblock-printed texts) in...

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International Dunhuang Project

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The International Dunhuang Project (IDP) is an international collaborative effort to conserve, catalogue and digitise manuscripts, printed texts, paintings...

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China National Silk Museum

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textilesasia.com". www.textilesasia.com. "Dunhuang textiles in the UK". British Museum. Zhao, Feng (2011). Textiles from Dunhuang in French Collections. Donghua...

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British Museum

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the West, (1100 AD) A fine assemblage of Buddhist scroll paintings from Dunhuang, western China, collected by the British-Hungarian explorer Aurel Stein...

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Tang performance arts in Dunhuang

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influence of Tang art in Dunhuang. Until Dunhuang was conquered by Tibet in 781, the effect of the Tang dynasty in Dunhuang murals was significant and...

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Chang Shuhong

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"guardian of Dunhuang" for his crucial role in documenting, preserving, and publicizing the ancient artworks at the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, China. Chang...

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Palace Museum

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Restoration, Oil Painting Restoration The curator of the museum is Wang Xudong, formerly director of Dunhuang Research Academy. His predecessor Shan Jixiang is...

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Yumen Pass

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the Jade Gate, is the name of a pass of the Great Wall located west of Dunhuang in today's Gansu Province of China. During the Han dynasty (202 BC – AD...

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Cities along the Silk Road

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Ruoqiang Town (Charklik) Miran Yangguan, or Yangguan Pass Dunhuang the Mogao Caves Anxi Dunhuang (Major City) Jiayuguan Jiuquan Zhangye Shandan Liangzhou...

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Dunhuang Go Manual

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The Dunhuang Go Manual or Dunhuang Go Classic or simply the Classic of Go (Chinese: 敦煌碁經; pinyin: Dūnhuáng Qíjīng) is the earliest surviving manual on...

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Chinese constellations

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who according to the testimony of the Dunhuang Star Chart enumerated 810 stars in 138 asterisms. The Dunhuang Star Chart itself has 1,585 stars grouped...

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Langdon Warner

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Mogao caves at Dunhuang. In 1922, the Fogg Museum sent Warner to China to explore western China. He arrived at the Mogao Caves in Dunhuang in January 1924...

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Guiyi Circuit

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Xīhàn Jīnshān guó; Hsi-han Chin-shan kuo, 909–911), Dunhuang Kingdom of Western Han (西漢敦煌國; Xīhàn Dūnhuáng guó; Hsi-han Tun-huang kuo, 911–914), was a Chinese...

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Fan Jinshi

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served as director of the Dunhuang Research Academy between 1998 and 2014. She spends most of her life in Mogao Caves, Dunhuang, currently working as an...

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Aurel Stein

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linguist and surveyor. His collection of books and manuscripts bought from Dunhuang caves is important for the study of the history of Central Asia and the...

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Gansu

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this corridor, building the strategic Yumenguan (Jade Gate Pass, near Dunhuang) and Yangguan fort towns along it. Remains of the wall and the towns can...

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Sogdian language

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Sogdian known as the "Ancient Letters" in an abandoned watchtower near Dunhuang in 1907, dating to the end of the Western Jin dynasty. The finding of manuscript...

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Jiuquan

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runs from the Liugou Station in Guazhou County to Dunhuang, serving both Guazhou county seat and Dunhuang. There are plans to expand it further south into...

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Northern Zhou

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Shanxi Museum Shakyamuni Buddha. Northern Zhou dynasty, 557-581. Shanxi Museum Buddha flanked by bodhisattvas with flying apsaras. Dunhuang mural. Cave...

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Diyu

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敦煌文献中的《还魂记》写本 ) [Manuscript of Huan Hun Ji among the Dunhuang Manuscripts]. The Grottoes of Dunhuang Information Network (in Chinese). Retrieved 8 January...

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Three hares

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different meaning. For example, Guan Youhui, a retired researcher from the Dunhuang Academy, who spent 50 years studying the decorative patterns in the Mogao...

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Azure Dragon

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Press / Ilchokak. ISBN 978-0-674-61576-2. "The Chinese Sky". International Dunhuang Project. Archived from the original on 2015-11-04. Retrieved 2011-06-25...

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Susan Whitfield

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(2002). Dunhuang Manuscript Forgeries. British Library. ISBN 978-0-7123-4631-3. Whitfield, Susan (2004). Aurel Stein on the Silk Road. British Museum....

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Western Wei

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the dynasty only lasted twenty-two years. Western Wei caves opened at Dunhuang and Maijishan. Northern dynasties shieldbearer Western Wei civil officer...

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