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

[Jim Peavler]

So, Joanna, in honor of the good St. Valentine, I have unsubscribed  
everybody else so we have Buddha-L to ourselves!!

What a lovely, peaceful place it has become!


On Feb 16, 2007, at 7:55 AM, jkirk wrote:

>
> 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
> ====================================================
>
>> The Asian Studies WWW Monitor:  Feb 2007, Vol. 14, No. 2 (259)
>> --------------------------------------------------------------
>> 16 Feb 2007
>>
>> 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
>> --------------------------------------------------------------
>> Src: The Asian Studies WWW Monitor ISSN 1329-9778
>> URL http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html
>
>
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