{"id":665,"date":"2016-02-08T09:00:39","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T13:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/rbsc\/?p=665"},"modified":"2026-06-29T11:49:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T15:49:38","slug":"recent-acquisitions-in-east-asian-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/recent-acquisitions-in-east-asian-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Acquisition: Buddhist Art"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

by Hye-jin Juhn, East Asian Studies Librarian<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hesburgh Libraries recently acquired two resources that serve as important scholarly sources for those who study Chinese\/Tibetan Buddhism and Buddhist art. These resources are the highly-regarded 1970s reprints of original publications from the 1920s:<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Thousand Buddhas: Ancient Buddhist Paintings from the Cave-temples of Tun-huang on the Western Frontier of China<\/a><\/i>. Recovered and described by Sir Aurel Stein, with an introductory essay by Laurence Binyon<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This Tokyo reprint (1978) was praised by Dr. W. Pachow, a Chinese Buddhist scholar, as a “extraordinary” and “very valuable.” His review<\/a> that appeared on The Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies<\/a><\/i> in 1981 is a worthy introduction to the resource that includes a detailed description of the size and composition of the folio and its contents. Also important to note is Dr. Pachow’s point about a few unintended misinterpretations by Sir Aurel Stein who did not understand Chinese.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Die buddhistische Spa\u0308tantike in Mittelasien: Ergebnisse der Kgl. preussischen Turfan-Expeditionen<\/a><\/i> (Postancient Buddhist Culture in Central Asia: Results of the Royal Prussian Turfan-Expedition<\/i>). Records of items recovered and described by Albert von Le Coq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This 1973-1975 print of the original Berlin edition (1922-1933) consists of seven volumes. Detailed descriptions about the first five volumes are available online.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The publications symbolically represent the early 20th century history of the Silk Road where long-lost cultural relics were discovered and then disappeared again, some of them permanently. Peter Hopkirk’s Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Cities and Treasures of Chinese Central Asia<\/a><\/i> is a classic that tells of of the brave expeditions the above authors are credited with (or the blatant exploitation that they are accused of).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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by Hye-jin Juhn, East Asian Studies Librarian The Hesburgh Libraries recently acquired two resources that serve as important scholarly sources for those who study Chinese\/Tibetan Buddhism and Buddhist art. These resources are the highly-regarded 1970s reprints of original publications from the 1920s: The Thousand Buddhas: Ancient Buddhist Paintings from the Cave-temples of Tun-huang on the … Continue reading Recent Acquisition: Buddhist Art<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1936,"featured_media":734,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77957,12646],"tags":[77938,75749],"class_list":["post-665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asian-studies","category-miscellaneous","tag-book","tag-recent-acquisitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1936"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11651,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions\/11651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}