{"product_id":"eighteen-lectures-on-dunhuang-9789004250420","title":"Eighteen Lectures on Dunhuang","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Imre Galambos | Xinjiang Rong\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Brill\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Brill\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Asia - China\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eEighteen Lectures on Dunhuang\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. The availability of this unprecedented amount of first-hand material from China's middle period provided a stimulus for a number of scholarly fields both in China and the West. Rong Xinjiang's book provides, for the first time in English, a convenient summary of the history of Dunhuang studies and its contribution to scholarship.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47890901303447,"sku":"9789004250420","price":30538.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9789004250420.webp?v=1781181728","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/eighteen-lectures-on-dunhuang-9789004250420","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}