Eighteen Lectures on Dunhuang

by Xinjiang Rong and Rong Xinjiang

In Eighteen Lectures on Dunhuang, Rong Xinjiang provides an accessible overview of Dunhuang studies, an academic field that emerged following the discovery of a medieval monastic library at the Mogao caves near Dunhuang. The manuscripts were hidden in a cave at the beginning of the 11th century and remained unnoticed until 1900, when a Daoist monk accidentally found them and subsequently sold most of them to foreign explorers and scholars...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004250425
• ISBN13: 9789004250420
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.4"