China publishes photocopies of Dunhuang's ancient Tibetan literature – People's Daily Online

LANZHOU, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) — China has for the first time published photocopies of ancient Tibetan literature taken to France from the famed Mogao Grottoes a century ago. The Dunhuang manuscripts were first discovered in 1900 in the Mogao Grottos, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in northwest China’s Gansu Province. There are more than 60,000 of them, featuring history, politics, religion and folk customs. Dating from the 4th to 11th centuries, the majority of the manuscripts are in Chinese, but some are represented in other ethnic languages including Tibetan. In the early 20th century, a large number of Dunhuang Tibetan…