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The Dunhuang Region During Tibetan Rule (787–848): A Study of the Secular Manuscripts Discovered at Dunhuang
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (2): 546–548.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Brandon Dotson Despite such shortcomings, this work and its numerous contributions should not be dismissed. Taenzer has highlighted several documents and brought forth many facts that enhance the fields of Dunhuang studies and early Tibetan studies. More problematic is Taenzer's approach...
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in What Can the Patterns of Renovation Reveal?: Afterlife of the Tibetan Empire in the Tangut Intervention at Dunhuang
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Published: 01 February 2025
FIGURE 7 Main hall, Cave 285, Mogao Caves, Dunhuang. Image provided by Dunhuang Research Academy.
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The Five-Colored Clouds of Mount Wutai: Poems from Dunhuang
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (3): 804–805.
Published: 01 August 2014
...Susan Andrews The Five-Colored Clouds of Mount Wutai: Poems from Dunhuang . By Mary Anne Cartelli . Leiden : Brill , 2013 . xii, 224 pp. $122.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014 2014 As its title suggests, Mary Anne Cartelli's The Five-Colored...
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What Can the Patterns of Renovation Reveal?: Afterlife of the Tibetan Empire in the Tangut Intervention at Dunhuang
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Journal of Asian Studies (2025) 84 (1): 139–167.
Published: 01 February 2025
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Spatial Dunhuang: Experiencing the Mogao Caves
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (2): 427–429.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Anne N. Feng Spatial Dunhuang: Experiencing the Mogao Caves . By Wu Hung . Seattle : Washington University Press , 2023 . xix, 368 pp. ISBN: 9780295750200 . © 2024 Association for Asian Studies 2024 The past two decades have witnessed a flourishing of art historical research...
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Eighteen Lectures on Dunhuang
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (1): 217–218.
Published: 01 February 2015
...Brandon Dotson In the final analysis, most of the chapters are appropriate readings for undergraduates, and the book as a whole is a very good introduction to the history of Dunhuang and to Dunhuang studies. The book's status as a translation of a Chinese book, Dunhuang xueshi ba jiang...
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Uygur Patronage in Dunhuang: Regional Art Centres on the Northern Silk Road in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries
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Journal of Asian Studies (2006) 65 (3): 621–623.
Published: 01 August 2006
...Michael C. Brose Uygur Patronage in Dunhuang: Regional Art Centres on the Northern Silk Road in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries . By Lilla Russell-Smith . Leiden, Netherlands : Brill , 2004 . 296 pp. $181.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2006 2006 B O O K R...
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Art, Religion, and Politics in Medieval China: The Dunhuang Cave of the Zhai Family
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Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (2): 454–456.
Published: 01 May 2005
...Stanley K. Abe Art, Religion, and Politics in Medieval China: The Dunhuang Cave of the Zhai Family . By Ning Qiang . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2004 . xv , 178 pp. $44.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 454 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I...
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Esoteric Buddhism at Dunhuang: Rites and Teachings for This Life and Beyond
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (1): 225–227.
Published: 01 February 2011
...Joe McClellan The final essay looks at Dunhuang Chinese materials, especially early printed material such as stamped images and Sanskrit dhārani sheets. Providing detailed physical descriptions, she shows how early, nonliterary printed material—often because of its talismanic value and so...
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Coiled phoenix motif, ceiling, Cave 16, Mogao Caves, Dunhuang, Tangut perio...
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Published: 01 February 2025
FIGURE 8 Coiled phoenix motif, ceiling, Cave 16, Mogao Caves, Dunhuang, Tangut period. Photograph by Wu Jian 吴健 . Image provided by Dunhuang Research Academy.
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in What Can the Patterns of Renovation Reveal?: Afterlife of the Tibetan Empire in the Tangut Intervention at Dunhuang
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Published: 01 February 2025
FIGURE 10 Coiled dragon motif on the ceiling, Cave 130, Mogao Caves, Dunhuang. Image provided by Dunhuang Research Academy.
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Images de Dunbuang: Dessins et peintures sur papier des fonds Pelliot et Stein
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (3): 834–835.
Published: 01 August 2001
..., and illustrated manuscripts from the renowned secret library cave at Dunhuang (Cave 17 of Mogaoku). These important visual materials, along with other religious and nonreligious texts and paintings, were discovered by a Daoist Monk by the name of Wang Yuanlu in 1900 and brought to London and Paris by Aurel Stein...
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The King's Road: Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk Road
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (3): 763–765.
Published: 01 August 2024
... communication among the independent kingdoms that had emerged at Dunhuang, Khotan, Turfan, Ganzhou, and other oases of eastern Central Asia. Wen's primary sources are secular documents in Chinese, Khotanese, Tibetan, Uyghur, and Sogdian mostly from the famous “library cave” at the Mogao Buddhist caves complex...
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Performing the Visual: The Practice of Buddhist Wall Painting in China and Central Asia, 618–960
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (4): 1074–1076.
Published: 01 November 2004
... by readers within the tradition. ANDREW QUINTMAN University of Michigan Performing the Visual: The Practice of Buddhist Wall Painting in China and Central Asia, 618 960. By SARAH E. FRASER. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2004. xvi, 342 pp. $65.00 (cloth). Dunhuang studies have proliferated...
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Rolf Stein's Tibetica Antiqua, with Additional Materials
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (1): 233–235.
Published: 01 February 2011
...: the manuscripts from Dunhuang and the inscriptions from Central Tibet. Of the six articles, Tibetica Antiqua I is the longest, and perhaps the most ambitious. Here, Stein explores the “two vocabularies” found in the translated Buddhist literature from Dunhuang, showing that terms such as tathāgatha...
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The Taming of Demons: Violence and Liberation in Tibetan Buddhism
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (1): 236–238.
Published: 01 February 2014
...: Violence and Liberation in Tibetan Buddhism takes up the provocative issue of violence in Tibetan Buddhist ritual and mythology. Grounding his study in Dunhuang manuscripts, Jacob Dalton illuminates tantric developments during the little-understood “age of fragmentation,” following the dissolution...
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A Journey across Many Realms: The Shi Jun Sarcophagus and the Visual Representation of Migration on the Silk Road
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (1): 145–165.
Published: 01 February 2021
... in part or in its entirety. When space allowed, artists working in this mode would depict as many scenes as possible—the ceiling of Cave 290 at Dunhuang, a sixth-century Buddhist chapel, shows eighty-seven episodes of the life of the Buddha, including moments from his conception to his death in a linear...
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Manuscripts and Travellers: The Sino-Tibetan Documents of a Tenth-Century Buddhist Pilgrim
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (4): 1140–1141.
Published: 01 November 2012
... and interpretation of a tenth-century manuscript once in the hands of a Buddhist pilgrim. This document, now housed at the British Library, has been digitized as part of the International Dunhuang Project. Although van Schaik and Galambos are expert philologists drawing attention to details of orthography...
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Buddhism and Taoism Face to Face: Scripture, Ritual, and Iconographic Exchange in Medieval China
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (2): 536–539.
Published: 01 May 2011
..., philology and genealogy are applied, backed up by a detailed knowledge of the history of religions, with, as the principal scene, Dunhuang, where the most telling items of evidence are to be found. In Chapter 1 (“The Heavenly Kitchens”), Mollier announces that although the oldest known manuscripts...
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T'ang Transformation Texts: A Study of the Buddhist Contribution to the Rise of Vernacular Fiction and Drama in China
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Journal of Asian Studies (1990) 49 (2): 382–383.
Published: 01 May 1990
.... Victor Mair is a leading international scholar in the field of early Chinese vernacular narratives. In a series of path-breaking books and articles he has tackled the significant questions not just within the area of Dunhuang narratives but in the field of Chinese vernacular fiction generally: What...
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