On the Silk Road

[shewhomust]

Via the Guardian, the International Dunhuang Project (IDP), digitising and cataloguing tens of thousands of Buddhist manuscripts, paintings and other goodies from museum collections around the world. If you need a tenth century Chinese - Khotanese Phrasebook, containing such useful sentences as "Where are you going?", "Do you know Chinese?" and "Bring me vegetables," this is the place to look.

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[sovay]

If you need a tenth century Chinese - Khotanese Phrasebook, containing such useful sentences as "Where are you going?", "Do you know Chinese?" and "Bring me vegetables," this is the place to look.

That is wonderful.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Isn't it? And it's almost a random sample, because I can't figure out how to browse the collections other than by dipping into their galleries...