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Tractatus manichaicus sinicus : pars prima : text, translation and indices
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ISBN: 9782503512464 2503512461 Year: 2017 Publisher: Turnhout Sydney Brepols MacQuarie University. Ancient Cultures Research Centre

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The first volume of the 'Series Sinica' contains the text and translation of one of the longest and best preserved of all Manichaean texts in Chinese. Found in Dunhuang at the beginning of the last century, the discovery and first publication of the so-called Traitémanichéen with French translation by Édouard Chavannes and Paul Pelliot (1911) was a sensation as it proved for the first time to Western scholars that the religion of Mani reached China from Iraq via Central Asia in the Tang period thanks to the Silk Road. This first-ever critical edition with English translation of the full document with revised editions of parallels in Parthian, Sogdian and Uyghur (Old Turkish) from Turfan by a team of experts is a major contribution to Manichaean scholarship. As the main subject matter of the text is the Light-Mind (Nous), it will undoubtedly be of interest to scholars of Gnosticism and of Medieval heresies. The text and translation are accompanied by a full set of word-indices, and a full-scale Commentary with additional textual material from Turfan will appear as Pars Secunda of the volume in the near future.


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Strategies for Sustainable Tourism at the Mogao Grottoes of Dunhuang, China
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ISBN: 9783319090009 3319089994 9783319089997 3319090003 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,

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At the Mogao Grottoes, a World Heritage site near Dunhuang city in Gansu Province, visitor numbers have increased inexorably since 1979 when the site opened. A national policy that identifies tourism as a pillar industry, along with pressure from local authorities and businesses to encourage more tourism, threatens to lead to an unsustainable situation for management, an unsafe and uncomfortable experience for visitors and irreparable damage to the fragile art of the cave temples for which the site is famous. In the context of the comprehensive visitor management plan developed for the Mogao Grottoes, a multi-year study began in 2001 as a joint undertaking of the Dunhuang Academy and the Getty Conservation Institute to determine the impact of visitation on the painted caves and develop strategies for sustainable visitation such that, once implemented, these threats would be resolved. The methodological framework featured a major research and assessment component that integrates visitor studies; laboratory investigations; environmental monitoring; field testing and condition assessment to address the issues affecting the grottoes and visitors. Results from this component led to defining limiting conditions, which were the basis for establishing a visitor capacity policy for the grottoes and developing long-term monitoring and management tools.


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The Dunhuang Grottoes and Global Education : Philosophical, Spiritual, Scientific, and Aesthetic Insights
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ISBN: 3030133567 3030133559 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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This book analyzes the murals and texts of the Dunhuang Grottoes, one of the most famous sites of cultural heritage on the Silk Road in Northwest China, from an educational perspective. The Dunhuang Grottoes are well-known in the world for their stunning beauty and magnificence, but the teaching of Dunhuang advocates a philosophical perspective that cosmos, nature, and humanity are an interconnected whole, and that all elements function interactively according to universal and relational principles of continuity, cause-and-effect, spiritual connection, and enlightenment. Xu Di and volume contributors highlight the moral education and ethics found throughout the Dunhuang with numerous stories of the personal journeys and growth of the Buddha and bodhisattvas, discussing and analyzing these teachings, and their possible implications for modern education systems throughout China and the world today.

Cave temples of Mogao : Art and history on the Silk Road.
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ISBN: 0892365854 9780892365852 Year: 2000 Publisher: Los Angeles Getty conservation institute

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"The Mogao cave temples on China's fabled Silk Road constitute one of the world's most significant sites of Buddhist art. Founded by monks as an isolated monastery in the late fourth century, Mogao evolved into a spiritual and artistic mecca renowned throughout China and central Asia. Here, in some five hundred caves carved into rock cliffs at the edge of the Gobi Desert, was preserved the pageantry of one thousand years - miles of wall paintings, more than two thousand statues, magnificent works on silk and paper, and tens of thousands of ancient manuscripts." "Cave Temples of Mogao tells the fascinating story of this remarkable site and of nearby Dunhuang, desert gateway to China. It also describes the long-term collaboration between the Getty Conservation Institute and Chinese authorities to preserve the Mogao shrines."--Jacket.

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temples [buildings] --- zijderoute --- Archeology --- Dunhuang --- Mural painting and decoration, Buddhist --- Mural painting and decoration, Chinese --- Art, Buddhist --- Art, Chinese --- Dunhuang Caves (China) --- S17/0510 --- S17/0210 --- S17/0230 --- S17/0550 --- China: Art and archaeology--Buddhist art: paintings --- China: Art and archaeology--Archaeology: general --- China: Art and archaeology--Dunhuang: general --- China: Art and archaeology--Silk route --- Buddhist art --- Buddhist mural painting and decoration --- Chinese mural painting and decoration --- Mural painting and decoration --- Art, Lamaist --- Art --- Buddhism and art --- Caves of the Thousand Buddhas (China) --- Chʻien-fu Caves (China) --- Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes (China) --- Dunhuang Mogao Ku (China) --- Mo-kao Caves (China) --- Mo-kao kʻu (China) --- Mogao Caves (China) --- Mogao Grottoes (China) --- Qianfu Caves (China) --- Thousand Buddhas Caves (China) --- Tun-huang Caves (China) --- Tun-huang Mo-kao kʻu (China) --- Mural painting and decoration, Buddhist - China - Dunhuang Caves --- Mural painting and decoration, Chinese - China - Dunhuang Caves --- Art, Buddhist - China - Dunhuang Caves --- Art, Chinese - Tang-Five dynasties, 618-960 --- 20.51 Buddhist art. --- Art bouddhique --- Art chinois --- Boeddhistische kunst. --- Buddhist art. --- Buddhist mural painting and decoration. --- Mural painting and decoration, Chinese. --- Muurschilderingen. --- Tempels. --- Zijderoute. --- Tang-Five dynasties. --- 618-960. --- China --- Dunhuang Caves (China). --- Dunhuang, Grottes de (Chine). --- Mogaogrotten --- Mogaogrotten.

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