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Ancient Tibetan Manuscripts

April 6, 2022;

A 30-volume compendium of ancient ethnic Tibetan manuscripts, Gansu Dunhuang Tibetan Literature, is to be published this year, reports Chinese state media the Global Times. The collection, held in Dunhuang in Gansu Province, northwest China, contains more than 6,700 manuscripts. Most are ancient Buddhist texts written in Tibetan script. The publisher described the books as the “first collection to be printed as text instead of photos of the documents”.

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