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Stein Dunhuang Manichaean manuscript
Date
700 to 799
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Measurement
height 28.5 centimetres, width 1021 centimetres
Material
Language / script
Subject
Buddhism Manicheanism History colophons Literary Geography and topography Empress Wu characters
Description
Scope and content : Paper scroll containing some thirty Manichaean hymns and prayers in Chinese. A translation is found in BSOAS 11.1 (1943): 148-219.
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DHMG.
Stein site number
Ch.75.XV.2
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Short description : Mogao Caves near Dunhuang
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