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Or.8210/S.527

manuscript, ink on paper

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Title

Women's Club Circular

Date

959

Find site

Dunhuang Mogao

Measurement

height 30.2 centimetres, width 62.2 centimetres

Material

manuscript, ink on paper

Language / script

Chinese (lang.) Chinese (script)

Subject

dated documents

Description

Scope and content : This document lays out the rules and objectives of the club. It starts with praise for friendship and moves on to list of the contributions that members are expected to give on feast days: oil, flour and wine, presumably for the monastery and the acquisition of merit.

Institution

British Library

Provenance

Stein 1906-8

Find site identifier

DHMG.

Find site description

Short description : Mogao Caves near Dunhuang

Non-Buddhist Documents from Dunhuang in the British Library (Boltz)


Lay Students and the Making of Written Vernacular Narrative (Mair 1981)

Giles, LDescriptive Catalogue of the Chinese Manuscripts from Tunhuang in the British MuseumLondonBritish Museum1957ManuscriptsDunhuangGoldenLight

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