[Buddha-l] International Dunhuang Project (IDP) - Educational Links

[jkirk]

Matt Ciolek calls this site Essential.
Please visit it......treasures of Buddhism from China:
http://ignca.nic.in/ks_19.htm
Dunhuang although internationally known is infrequently visited. The Mogao 
shrine at Dunhuang is a cluster of 492 caves, containing 45,000 square 
metres of frescoes and 2,415 stucco statues. This is a precious art heritage 
of the world. It has great historical and artistic value. These caves were 
created, renovated and maintained continually with devotion and care from 
the 4th upto the 14th century. They were also maintained during the 
subsequent periods up till the 19th century. From the 7th to 9th century, 
culture and art enjoyed a golden period in China, so did Dunhuang Art.
Joanna
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> The Asian Studies WWW Monitor:  Feb 2007, Vol. 14, No. 2 (259)
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> 16 Feb 2007
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> International Dunhuang Project (IDP) - Educational Links
>
> International Dunhuang Project, British Library, London, UK.
>
> Self description:
> "The International Dunhuang Project IDP [est. 1994 and directed by Dr 
> Susan Whitfield - ed.] is a ground-breaking international collaboration 
> based at the British Library to make information and images of more than 
> 100,000 manuscripts, paintings, textiles and artefacts from Dunhuang and 
> other Silk Road sites freely available. [...] The high quality colour 
> images and historically accurate information are searchable on the IDP 
> DATABASE. Items are shown in context, with bibliographies, maps, 
> photographs, site plans and other information relating to their 
> provenance, history and present condition. This gives the scholar, the 
> student and the layman a unique insight into Silk Road life during the 
> first millennium AD."
>
> Site contents [in the Educational Links section]:
> * Dunhuang and the Silk Road; * Buddhism; * Tibetan/Nepalese Art & 
> Manuscripts; * E-Learning; * Travel; * Scripts & Languages; * Technical 
> links (Digitisation, Metadata, Colour Management, Infrared Photography).
>
> The IDP site also provides links to the following site sections: * About 
> IDP (People, Funding, Activities, IDP Newsletter, Publications); * 
> Collections (British, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Russian, Other); 
> * Technical (Infrastructure, Resources, Links); * Archives (IDP 
> Newsletter; IDP papers; IDP Timeline; IDP Web); * Site Map; * Contact IDP; 
> * Search (IDP Database, Advanced Search, Bibliography Search) * Catalogs 
> [of the Silk Roads manuscripts] * Maps.
>
> URL http://idp.bl.uk/4DCGI/pages/education_links.a4d
>
 > Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
>
> * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online 
> guide]:
> Online Guide
> * Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - 
> other]:
> Library
> * Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - 
> marginal]:
> Essential
> * External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000
>  - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30
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