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0361 On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks : vol.1
On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks : vol.1 / Page 361 (Color Image)

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[Photo] 91. CHINESE MANUSCRIPTS AND BLOCKPRINTS FROM WALLED-UP TEMPLE LIBRARY OF THE ‘CAVES OF THE THOUSAND BUDDHAS’.

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nd that of the materials gathered
that the walling up of the great
ce about the beginning of the
at the time when the conquest
Tanguts caused danger to the
site.
literary remains will yet claim
ny years to come. I can refer
teresting discoveries already
nese scholars. In the large
868 is found the oldest
so far known. The perfect
ext and the frontispiece indi-
gment of the printer's craft.
m another point of view is
texts in Chinese garb. Their
basis so far available for the
tistic religion of Mani which
elements. It was hitherto known
of its Christian adversaries and
d at Turfan. Firmly established
the Sasanides, Manichaism had
read throughout Central Asia.
n into Mediterranean countries,
of Eastern Europe its influence
Ages.
rolls and documents (Fig. 91)
rials nearest in character and es-
part, contain Buddhist canonical
rs of Professor F. W. Thomas of
mong these Tibetan remains, too.