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The 24 pages that link to Dunhuang manuscripts, each with the reason it gives.

• Silk RoadRelated: A single hoard showing the languages, religions and record-keeping of one route city.

• Chan BuddhismRelated: These documents provide evidence that complicates later patriarchal histories.

• Manuscript cultureBroader topic: The cache preserves diverse religious, administrative, and literary works from a major Silk Road region.

• Tibetan languageRelated: They preserve varied evidence of Tibetan writing, administration, and religious life.

• Hexi CorridorBroader topic: Their languages and subjects reveal the corridor’s role in connecting diverse communities.

• Tibetan Buddhist canonRelated: They offer evidence for early Tibetan translations and textual circulation beyond later editions.

• DunhuangRelated: The manuscripts name the people, prices and rituals of daily life at this oasis town.

• Mogao CavesBroader topic: These texts reveal the languages, beliefs, and everyday concerns represented at the site.

• Chinese Buddhist CanonRelated: The manuscripts preserve texts and versions outside the contents of later printed canons.

• Ci poetryRelated: Their song texts offer evidence for early forms related to ci.

• Trisong DetsenRelated: Their Tibetan records help test later accounts of the empire and its Buddhist institutions.

• Sanskrit Buddhist literatureBroader topic: Their Sanskrit fragments document Buddhist textual circulation across Central Asia.

• Sogdian merchantsBroader topic: The manuscript cave preserving Sogdian letters, Buddhist texts and commercial records.

• Chinese woodblock printingRelated: The cache preserves early Chinese printed texts, including evidence of their circulation.

• KhotanRelated: The collection preserves Khotanese texts that illuminate the kingdom’s religion and language.

• Manuscript studiesBroader topic: Their languages, formats, and contents document a crossroads of religious and commercial exchange.

• Silk Road transmission of BuddhismBroader topic: Their languages and contents document Buddhist learning across Silk Road communities.

• Songtsen GampoRelated: Their early Tibetan records help test later narratives about his reign.

• HuinengRelated: Early Platform Sutra manuscripts reveal how Huineng’s biography and teachings changed over time.

• MūlasarvāstivādaRelated: Some manuscripts document Mūlasarvāstivāda texts and Buddhist networks in Central Asia.

• National Library of ChinaBroader topic: The library holds major materials connected to this landmark body of Chinese documentary heritage.

• Tarim Basin oasesRelated: The richest surviving record of what oasis culture preserved and produced.

• Zheng ZhenduoRelated: Zheng advocated collecting and studying these materials as a vital part of Chinese cultural heritage.

• Yulanpen SutraRelated: Manuscript evidence from Dunhuang documents the sutra’s circulation and ritual use.