Founded in 1994, the International Dunhuang Programme (IDP) is a pioneering international collaboration that brings together online collections from the Eastern Silk Roads and promotes understandings of the history and cultures of the region.
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Unfolding the Eighty-Fascicle Huayan jing: Tracing Manuscripts from the Stein Collection at the British Library
This guest blog post was written by Wu Luchun 吳廬春 , J. S. Lee Research Fellow at the British Library and an Archive Curator at …
Shaping the Stein collection’s Dunhuang corpus (3): The items from Cave 17's 'regular' bundles
Having focused in a previous blog post on what was in the ‘miscellaneous’ bundles found in Cave 17, we now turn to the second major …
A Silk Road Oasis Symposium Recordings Available Now
To celebrate the successful close of the exhibition A Silk Road Oasis: Life in Ancient Dunhuang, the British Library and the IDP hosted a symposium …
Sister, Master, Guardian of Dharma – Life of Nun Liaokong and the Dating of a Scroll
This blog post is by Zining Zheng, independent scholar and researcher of Chinese Historical Phonology and related subjects. This blog discusses scroll Or.8210/S.2669 which was …
Two Precious Items Copied by a Sogdian Scribe
This blog post is by Ursula Sims-Williams, Lead Curator of Persian at the British Library. This blog discusses the Ashem vohu (British Library, Or.8212/84), which …
Scribes at Dunhuang: Pens, Paper and Punishments
As showcased in the current exhibition at the British Library, A Silk Road Oasis: Life in Ancient Dunhuang (27 September 2024–23 February 2025), the manuscripts …
Programme of 'A Silk Road Oasis Symposium: Exploring Dunhuang's Multifaceted Legacy'
Don’t miss our two-day symposium on February 21-22, celebrating the closing of the exhibition A Silk Road Oasis: Life in Ancient Dunhuang. Held in person …
An Omen-filled Exhibition
This blog post is by Dr. Michael Erdman, Head of Middle East and Central Asia, British Library. This blog discusses manuscript Or.8212/161 which was on display …
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