Journeys on the Silk Road : a desert explorer, Buddha's secret library, and the unearthing of the world's oldest printed book

Başlık:

Yazar:

Morgan, Joyce. author

ISBN:

9780762782970

Yazar Ek Girişi:

Morgan, Joyce. author

Fiziksel Tanımlama:

viii, 325 pages, [8] p. of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Genel Not:

Originally published: Sydney : Picador, 2011.

İçerik:

The Great Race -- Signs of wonder -- The listening post -- The moon and the mail -- The Angels' Sanctuary -- City of sands -- Tricks and trust -- Key to the cave -- The hidden gem -- The thieves' road -- Affliction in the orchard -- Frozen -- Yesterday, having drunk too much -- Stormy debut -- Treasure hunters -- Hangman's Hill -- Facets of a jewel -- Shifting sands -- Scroll forward.

Özet:

The Silk Road once linked China with the Mediterranean. It conveyed merchants, pilgrims and ideas; but its cultures and oases were swallowed by shifting sands. Central to the Silk Road's rediscovery was a man named Aurel Stein, a Hungarian-born scholar and archaeologist employed by the British service. When a Chinese monk broke into a hidden cave in 1900 and uncovered scrolls undisturbed for a thousand years, Stein secured the scrolls, the Diamond Sutra of AD 868. This is the story of the scrolls, and their journey to London.

Konu Başlığı Ek Girişi:

Tripiṭaka. Chinese. Sūtrapiṭaka. Prajñāpāramitā. Vajracchedikā.

Konu Başlığı:

Trade routes -- China.

Ticaret yolları -- Çin.

East and West.

Doğu ve Batı.

Buddhist literature -- Influence -- Western civilization.

Budist edebiyatı -- Etki -- Batı uygarlığı.

Buddhism -- Influence -- Western civilization.

Budizm -- Etki -- Batı uygarlığı.

Buddhism -- History -- 20th century. -- China