Dunhuang manuscripts refer to a wide variety of religious and secular documents (mostly manuscripts, including hemp, silk, paper and woodblock-printed texts) in Tibetan, Chinese, and other languages that were discovered by Frenchman Paul Pelliot and British man Aurel Stein at the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, Gansu, China, from 1906 to 1909.

The International Dunhuang Programme, formerly the International Dunhuang Project, provides access to images, information and learning resources about manuscripts, printed materials and other items from sites of the Eastern Silk Roads through its online platform.

The most significant single site for manuscripts is Cave 17 in the Buddhist cave complex at Dunhuang, which contained manuscripts in the Chinese and Tibetan languages, with smaller groups of Khotanese, Turkic, Sanskrit and Sogdian manuscripts.

2024年7月5日 · The Dunhuang manuscripts are a vast collection of around 20,000 scrolls and fragments found in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China. Dating from the 5th to the 11th centuries AD, these manuscripts were sealed in a hidden chamber and remained undiscovered for nearly 900 years.

The Dunhuang manuscripts are a cache of religious and secular documents discovered in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China, in the early 20th century. Dating from late 4th to early 11th centuries, the manuscripts include works ranging from …

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. Dating from the 5th to early 11th centuries, the manuscripts include works ranging from history and mathematics to …

The term “Dunhuang manuscripts” refers to the tens of thousands of manuscripts, dating from the 5th to the 11th centuries, discovered in the early 20th century in a hidden cave in the Buddhist complex of Mogao, at Dunhuang (Gansu Province, China).

Dunhuang scholars are thus faced with some unique challenges as they navigate materials scattered across the globe. The Penn Libraries is dedicated to collecting materials about the Dunhuang manuscripts and the cave art in physical and digital formats.

Morphological Data on 1000 Manuscripts from the "Pelliot Chinois" Collection of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France

These manuscripts formed the majority of today’s Dunhuang collection in Great Britain. Stein came back to Dunhuang in 1914 and bought more manuscripts. 1908：French Sinologist Paul Pelliot spent three weeks in the Library Cave, selecting thousands of religious, secular, and local documents of great value.