On the Silk Road

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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.