[Buddha-l] International Dunhuang Project (IDP) - EducationalLinks

Fri Feb 16 19:19:24 MST 2007

Sorry----I thought this was going to Jim, not the list.
JK

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From: "jkirk" <jkirk at spro.net>
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Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 5:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Buddha-l] International Dunhuang Project (IDP) - 
EducationalLinks

>    What can I say? Ho ho ho? Yes, the list has been listing, of 
> late.......
>
> I may be off to SFO on Mar 3-4th, to a big show of Indian art at the Asian 
> Art Mus. there, and a talk I'd hate to miss by a friend who made it to 
> this village some leagues from Lahore, Pakistan, to research their 
> apparently spectacular Shia procession wood-carvings. She leaves on 
> Sunday, so I figure she's getting out of there in one piece. She has some 
> slightly hair-raising adventures to tell, so I hope I can see her.
>
> I see the doc about my broken arm Monday week, and the PT lady says she 
> thinks he'll release me from the sling. I have to ask him if he advises 
> against doing the trip. Luckily, a SWA senior ticket allows me to cancel 
> it with no penalty if he says no. Must reserve it today, though.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jim Peavler" <jmp at peavler.org>
> To: "Buddhist discussion forum" <buddha-l at mailman.swcp.com>
> Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 12:53 PM
> Subject: Re: [Buddha-l] International Dunhuang Project (IDP) - 
> EducationalLinks
>
>
>> 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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