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

Fri Feb 16 20:13:22 MST 2007

Don' worry. Nobody's listening. I didn't even know you had broken  
your arm! Or at least I don't remember knowing it.

I hoe you get to take your trip.

On Feb 16, 2007, at 7:19 PM, jkirk wrote:

> Sorry----I thought this was going to Jim, not the list.
> JK
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "jkirk" <jkirk at spro.net>
> To: "Buddhist discussion forum" <buddha-l at mailman.swcp.com>
> 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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