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China: Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu at Mogao, Dunhuang, Gansu, c. 1907

China: Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu at Mogao, Dunhuang, Gansu, c. 1907
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China: Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu at Mogao, Dunhuang, Gansu, c. 1907
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In the early 1900s, a Chinese Taoist named Wang Yuanlu appointed himself guardian of some of these temples. Wang discovered a walled up area behind one side of a corridor leading to a main cave. Behind the wall was a small cave stuffed with an enormous hoard of manuscripts dating from 406 to 1002 CE. These included old hemp paper scrolls in Chinese and many other languages, paintings on hemp, silk or paper, numerous damaged figurines of Buddhas, and other Buddhist paraphernalia.

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