Wikipedia:GLAM/British Library/IDP/Resources

A list of potentially useful references from the IDP website

Research Papers on IDP
 Enjoy It While it Lasts: A Brief Golden Age of Freedom of Scholarly Information? The Question of Forgeries Suvarṇaprabhāsottamasūtra A Review of Tangut Buddhism, Art and Textual Studies Introduction to Descriptive Catalogue of the Chinese Manuscripts from Tunhuang in the British Museum Médecine, société et religion dans la Chine médiévale Manuscrits de Dunhuang et pratiques de santé Abstracts of the medical manuscripts from Dunhuang A Chinese Medieval Treatment for Angina</li> <li>Proceedings (Extract) of XII International Congress of Orientalists, Rome, October 1899</li> <li>Otani Kozui's 1910 visit to London (PDF)</li> <li>Orthography of Early Chinese Writing: Evidence from Newly Excavated Manuscripts (PDF)</li> <li>A Tenth Century Manuscript from Dunhuang Concerning the Gantong Monastery at Liangzhou (PDF)</li> <li>Current status and future prospects of the Hanzi Normative Glyphs (HNG) Database (PDF)</li> <li>The Dunhuang Sky: A Comprehensive Study of the Oldest Known Star Atlas</li> <li>Star Atlas: Translation</li> <li>A Technical Study of Portable Tenth-Century Paintings from Dunhuang in US Collections (PDF)</li> <li>[http://idp.bl.uk/downloads/Whitfield_SilkRoad.pdf Was there a Silk Road? (PDF)]</li> <li>The Prayer, the Priest and the Tsenpo: An Early Buddhist Narrative from Dunhuang (PDF)</li> <li>Ancient Khotan (work in progress)</li> </ul>

Educational Resources on IDP
<ul> <li>Cultural Dialogue on the Silk Road: A Mini Gallery</li> <li>The Story of Gansu: Where Cultures and Religions Meet</li> <li>The Silk Road: Trade, Travel, War and Faith</li> <li>Bookbinding</li> <li>Buddhism on the Silk Road</li> <li>Medicine on the Silk Road</li> <li>Buddhism Education Pack</li> <li>Chinese Astronomy</li> </ul>

IDP News Articles
Issue 1 – May 1993 <ul> <li>'Cave 17' Conference Sussex University, UK October 13–15, 1993</li> <li>Establishment of the IDP Steering Group</li> </ul>

Issue 2 – January 1995 <ul> <li>The Dunhuang Manuscripts in St.Petersburg</li> <li>Khara-Khoto — The Black City</li> <li>The Star Chart</li> </ul>

Issue 3 – July 1995 <ul> <li>Berlin's Re-united Collections</li> <li>Conservation and Science</li> <li>Qizil Caves</li> </ul>

Issue 4 – January 1996 <ul> <li>Dunhuang at the Bibliothèque National in Paris</li> <li>An Oasis in Europe Dunhuang Studies in France</li> <li>The Year of the Rat</li> </ul>

Issue 5 – Summer 1996 <ul> <li>The Conservation of Manuscripts from Dunhuang and Central Asia</li> <li>Two Conservation Problems</li> </ul>

Issue 6 – November 1996 <ul> <li>Dunhuang Manuscripts Collections in China</li> </ul>

Issue 7 – Spring 1997 <ul> <li>Ye Changchi: Pioneer of Dunhuang Studies by Rong Xinjiang</li> <li>Towards a New Understanding of Huahujing (The scripture of transforming the barbarians) from Dunhuang by Liu Yi</li> </ul>

Issues 8 &amp; 9 – Summer/Winter 1997 <ul> <li>Genuine, Copy or Forgery?</li> <li>IDP Workshop on Dunhuang Mansuscript Forgeries</li> <li>Chronological Classification of Dunhuang Buddhist Manuscripts</li> <li>IDP Symposium: 'Dunhuang and Turfan'</li> </ul>

Issue 10 – Spring 1998 <ul> <li>Count Otani's Central Asian Expeditions</li> <li>Japanese Collections of Dunhuang and Silk Road Manuscripts</li> <li>On the Photography of Magistrate Wang and His Family by Wang Jiqing</li> <li>Meeting on the Centenary of the Discovery of the Dunhuang Manuscript Cave by Rong Xinjiang</li> </ul>

Issue 11 – Summer 1998 <ul> <li>Preservation of Dunhuang and Central Asian Collections: Third International Conference</li> <li>Conference Programme</li> <li>The Silk Road Project: Reuniting Turfan's Scattered Treasures by Valerie Hansen</li> <li>Conservation in Japan</li> <li>The Tradition of Japanese Mounting and Some Methods Applied to Early Graphic Materials by W. Andrew Hare</li> <li>Conservation of 3rd Century Loulan Paper Documents by Katsuhiko Masuda</li> </ul>

Issue 12 – Winter 1998/9 <ul> <li>The Stein Collection in the British Library</li> <li>Dunhuang Manuscripts in the Taipei National Central Library by Lou Kamtong</li> <li>Dunhuang Manuscripts at Academia Sinica, Taipei by Tu Cheng-sheng</li> </ul>

Issue 13 – Spring 1999 <ul> <li>Site and Wall Paintings' Conservation at the Mogao Grottoes by Neville Agnew</li> <li>The Origin of Chess: The Initiative Group Koenigstein</li> <li>Stylus-Impressed Writing on the Dunhuang Manuscripts by Yasukazu Yoshizawa and Yoshinori Kobayashi</li> </ul>

Issue 14 – Autumn 1999 <ul> <li>The Preservation of Manuscripts, Artefacts and Paintings from Dunhuang and Central Asia</li> <li>Transparent Plastic Film Materials for Document Conservation by Dr Barry Cope</li> <li>Samuil Martynovich Dudin by Professor L. N. Menshikov</li> </ul>

Issue 15 – Spring 2000 <ul> <li>Mannerheim's Central Asian Expedition of 1906–1908 by Alpo Ratia</li> <li>Stein's Dunhuang Limes Revisited by C. W. Dyment</li> </ul>

Issue 16 – Autumn 2000 <ul> <li>Celebrating the Centenary</li> <li>2000 International Conference on Dunhuang Studies by Roderick Whitfield</li> <li>International Academic Conference on the Centenary of the Discovery of the Dunhuang Library Cave by Frances Wood</li> <li>'Respect, Understanding and Good Faith' - 'Reminiscence of Dunhuang Manuscripts in British Collections'</li> </ul>

Issue 17 – Winter 2000/1 <ul> <li>Tibetan Manuscripts in Gansu Province, China by Sam van Schaik</li> <li>Bibliography of Catalogues of Tibetan Central Asian Manuscript Collections</li> <li>Summary of the January 2001 EPHE Vème section lecture series by Matthew Kapstein</li> <li>Ellsworth Huntington and the Central Asian Manuscripts at Yale by Sam van Schaik</li> </ul>

Issue 18 – Summer 2001 <ul> <li>The Three Rabbits</li> <li>Camel and Yak Hair on the Silk Road by M. L. Ryder</li> <li>A Dash Across Asia</li> <li>More Dogs and Other Animals… </li> <li>Sir Auriel Stein's Grave in Kabul</li> </ul>

Issue 19 – Winter 2001 <ul> <li>Chinggis Khan's Name Encrypted in a Tangut Song</li> <li>Setting Standards — IDP Photography and Digitisation</li> <li>New IDP website: Buddhism on the Silk Road</li> </ul>

Issue 20 – Spring 2002 <ul> <li>Manuscript Forgeries</li> <li>Dunhuang Manuscript Forgeries</li> <li>Islam Akhuns Forgeries 1895–7</li> <li>Two 'New' Islam Akhuns Forgeries &amp; Forgeries Today</li> <li>More Stein News</li> <li>The UK-Hungarian Stein Project</li> </ul>

Issue 21 – Summer 2002 <ul> <li>The IDP Database Goes International</li> <li>Sven Hedin: Explorer and Collector</li> <li>The Centenary of the First German Expedition to Turfan</li> <li>The Sven Hedin Foundation</li> </ul>

Issue 22/23 – Winter 2002/Spring 2003 <ul> <li>Launch of the Chinese Web Site</li> <li>5th Conservation Conference in Stockholm</li> <li>Dunhuang Paintings Online</li> <li>An Enduring Friendship: De Filippi and Stein</li> <li>Memories of Ksenia Kepping</li> </ul>

Issue 24 – Autumn 2004 <ul> <li>IDP 10 years on</li> <li>The Silk Road Exhibition and associated events</li> <li>IDP in Russia and Japan</li> <li>Project Appeal</li> </ul>

Issue 25 – Spring 2005 <ul> <li>St Petersburg Online</li> <li>A Journey of Exploration: Objets d'Arts of the Museum of Indian Art, Berlin, in the State Hermitage, St Petersburg</li> <li>Archaeological Finds from Khotan in the State Museum of Ethnography in Munich</li> <li>Stein in the UK, Hungary and India</li> <li>Obituary: Nadezhda Mironovna Brovenko (1946–2003)</li> </ul>

Issue 26 – Winter 2005 <ul> <li>2005 – The New Year in Review</li> <li>New Funding</li> <li>A Guide to the IDP Website and Database</li> <li>Uighur Studies in China: A Review</li> <li>Professor L.N. Menshikov (1926–2005)</li> </ul>

Issue 27 – Spring 2006 <ul> <li>The Berlin Turfan Collection — Online</li> <li>Nikolai Mikhailovich Przhevalsky and the Politics of Russian Imperialism</li> <li>A Study of the Silk Braids on Stein Chinese Scrolls</li> <li>Textile Exhibition and Publication</li> <li>The Use of Melinex for Enclosing Manuscript Fragments</li> <li>Kashgar: Cultural Monuments and Spaces</li> </ul>

Issue 28 – Winter 2006 <ul> <li>Recent Japanese Research on Silk Road Manuscripts</li> <li>The Zhufoyaojijing at the Lüshun Museum</li> <li>Database of the Normative Glyphs in Hanzi Script (HNG)</li> <li>Codicological study of old Chinese Manuscripts</li> <li>Exploiting the high dynamic range of images for study</li> <li>Scientific Analysis of Paper from Ancient Central Asian Manuscripts</li> <li>The British Library Sanskrit Fragments</li> <li>Boris Il'ich Marshak</li> <li>Ford Foundation Symposium</li> </ul>

Issue 29 – Spring 2007 <ul> <li>A Century of Collection Care</li> <li>The Conservation of Stein Tibetan Manuscripts</li> <li>Recent IDP Conservation Initiatives</li> <li>Turfan Conservation in Berlin, Dr Simone-Christiane Raschmann</li> <li>Remembering Wang Xu (1930-1997), Sarah Allen</li> </ul>

Issue 30 – Winter 2007 <ul> <li>Stein and Chinese Officials at Dunhuang</li> <li>A Study in the Manufacture of Old Asian Inks</li> <li>IDP Conservation News</li> </ul>

Issue 31 – Spring/Summer 2008 <ul> <li>IDP-CREA Cultural Routes of Eurasia</li> <li>IDP-CREA Partners and Activities</li> <li>Western Eyes: An Exhibition of Historical Photographs of China taken by European Photographers, 1860–1930</li> <li>The Conservation of an Eighteenth Century Chinese Tao</li> </ul>

Issue 32 – Winter 2008–9 <ul> <li>Archaeology in Xinjiang</li> <li>A Century On: Documenting Archaeological Sites in Xinjiang</li> <li>Berlin Researchers in Turfan</li> <li>New Discoveries and Research on Khotan</li> <li>Celebrating the 2009 International Year of Astronomy</li> <li>Understanding the Dunhuang Star Chart</li> </ul>

Issue 33 – Spring 2009 (in French and English) <ul> <li>IDP France Goes Live</li> <li>Undoing Old and Doing New Conservation on Pelliot Chinois 2547 and 2490</li> <li>IDP’s Educational Activities and New Resources </li> <li>French Publications on the Silk Road</li> <li>Obituary: Song Jiayu 宋家钰</li> </ul>

Issue 34 – Winter 2009–10 <ul> <li>The Iconography of Buddha on a Wooden Panel from Khotan</li> <li>Stars on Earth — De Filippi’s 1913-4 Karakorum Expedition</li> <li>St. Petersburg Dunhuang Studies Conference</li> <li>THE CAVES OF DUNHUANG: Exclusive Offer for readers of IDP News</li> </ul>

Issue No. 35 - Spring/Summer 2010 <ul> <li>Following the Tracks of a Tenth-Century Buddhist Pilgrim</li> <li>A Technical Study of Portable Paintings from Cave 17 in US Collections</li> <li>Turfan Forum on Old Languages of the Silk Road</li> <li>Comment on IDP News 34</li> </ul>

Issue No. 36/37 - Winter/Spring 2010–11 <ul> <li>Launch of IDP Seoul</li> <li>IDP Korea Online</li> <li>Korea and the Silk Road</li> <li>The Impact of IDP on Dunhuang Studies</li> <li>The Significance of Dunhuang Studies in Korea</li> <li>Accounts of Silla in Dunhuang Manuscripts</li> <li>Previously Unpublished Silk Road Manuscripts Now Available Online</li> <li>Following Stein's Dreams in Afghanistan</li> <li>Denis Sinor 1916–2011</li> <li>Publications on Korea and the Silk Road</li> </ul>

Issue No. 38, Winter 2011–12 <ul> <li> The Diamond Sutra : History and Transmission</li> <li>Restoration of the Diamond Sutra </li> <li>Accruing Merit from Copying the Diamond Sutra </li> <li>A Preliminary Study of the Diamond Sutra </li> <li>Thierry Delcourt 1959–2011</li> <li>John R. McRae 1947–2011</li> <li>Publications: Diamond Sutra and Buddhism</li> <li>Documenting Dunhuang: Historical Records from the late Qing and Republican Periods</li> <li>IDP Worldwide: First Partners’ meeting in Dunhuang</li> </ul>

Issue No. 39, Winter 2011–12 <ul> <li>On Stein’s Tracks in the Taklamakan</li> <li>The Niya Ruins Today</li> <li>House-building in Ancient Niya</li> <li>Dunhuang Scrolls in the Royal Library, Copenhagen</li> <li>Obituary: John B. Vincent (1915–2012)</li> <li>Publications on Niya and Karadong</li> </ul>

External resources
A few useful pages/images on other sites.

Related to the German Turfan Expeditions
 * Entry for expedition accounts - Toyo Bunko Archive (Japan)
 * Slide collection with images of artefacts