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

[jkirk]

    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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