Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Mogao Caves' has mentioned 'Library' in the following places:
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| An important cache of documents was discovered in 1900 in the so-called "Library Cave", which had been walled-up in the 11th century. | WIKI |
| The contents of the library were subsequently dispersed around the world, and the largest collections are now found in Beijing, London, Paris and Berlin, and the International Dunhuang Project exists to coordinate and collect scholarly work on the Dunhuang manuscripts and other material. | WIKI |
| Contents 1 Etymology 2 History 2.1 Discovery and revival 3 The Library Cave 3.1 Dunhuang manuscripts 4 Art 4.1 Architecture 4.2 Murals 4.3 Sculptures 4.4 Paintings on silk and paper 4.5 Printed images 4.6 Textiles 5 Caves 6 Gallery 7 See also 8 Footnotes 9 References 10 Further reading 11 External links | WIKI |
| Painting on silk (Library Cave), Late Tang. | WIKI |
| Abbot Wang Yuanlu, discoverer of the hidden Library Cave | WIKI |
| The Library Cave[edit] | WIKI |
| Picture of Cave 16, by Aurel Stein in 1907, with manuscripts piled up beside the entrance to Cave 17, the Library Cave, which is to the right in this picture. | WIKI |
| Cave 17 discovered by Wang Yuanlu came to be known as the Library Cave. | WIKI |
| Hongbian, from a wealthy Wu family, was responsible for the construction of cave 16, and the Library Cave may have been used as his retreat in his lifetime. | WIKI |
| The Library Cave also contained textiles such as banners, numerous damaged figurines of Buddhas, and other Buddhist paraphernalia. | WIKI |
| The Library Cave was walled off sometime early in the 11th century. | WIKI |
| Another theory posits that the items were from a monastic library and hidden due to threats from Muslims who were moving eastward. | WIKI |
| This theory proposes that the monks of a nearby monastery heard about the fall of the Buddhist kingdom of Khotan to Karakhanids invaders from Kashgar in 1006 and the destruction it caused, so they sealed their library to avoid it being destroyed. | WIKI |
| Paul Pelliot examining manuscripts in the Library Cave, 1908 | WIKI |
| The manuscripts from the Library Cave date from fifth century until early eleventh century when it was sealed. | WIKI |
| [40] The manuscripts found in the Library Cave include the earliest dated printed book, the Diamond Sutra from 868, which was first translated from Sanskrit into Chinese in the fourth century. | WIKI |
| [41] Efforts are now underway to reconstitute the Library Cave manuscripts digitally, and they are now available as part of International Dunhuang Project. | WIKI |
| The original function of the "Library Cave" was as a shrine commemorating Hong Bian, the 9th-century monk. | WIKI |
| His portrait statue, unusual here and among all surviving works in China, was removed to another spot when the cave was sealed up in the 11th century, but has been returned now the library has been removed. | WIKI |
| Before the discovery in the Library Cave, original paintings on silk and paper from the Tang dynasty, an influential period in Chinese art, were very rare, and most of the surviving examples were copies made in later periods. | WIKI |
| Over a thousand paintings on silk, banners, and embroideries were found in the Library Cave, none apparently dating before the late 7th century. | WIKI |
| The Library Cave is equally important as a source of rare early images and texts produced by woodblock printing, including the famous Diamond Sutra, the earliest printed book to survive. | WIKI |
| Detail of embroidered panel from the Library Cave. | WIKI |
| The textiles found in the Library Cave include silk banners, altar hangings, wrappings for manuscripts, and monks' apparel (kxc4x81xe1xb9xa3xc4x81ya). | WIKI |
| 10th century mural from Cave 61, showing Tang Buddhist monasteries of Mount Wutai, Shanxi province The travel of Zhang Qian to the West, complete view, c. 700 The travel of Zhang Qian to the West, details of mural from cave 323, 618xe2x80x93712 A Tang Chinese silk landscape painting depicting a young Sakyamuni cutting his hair Vajrapani Painting at Mogao Caves (Library Cave) Bandit attacks Vaishravana riding across the waters. | WIKI |
| Sogdian Daxc4x93nxc4x81s depicting two Zoroastrian deities once worshipped by the Sogdians Nestorian painting of Jesus Christ discovered at the Library Cave Buddhist cave art, a dancer spins while the orchestra plays. | WIKI |
| The discovery of the Library Cave at the Mogao Caves in 1990, together with the tens of thousands of manuscripts and relics it contained, has been acclaimed as the worldxe2x80x99s greatest discovery of ancient Oriental culture. | UNESCO |