Brilliant exposition of official Tang Dunhuang manuscripts. I learned much from your analysis. It is interesting that official manuscripts are only a small proportion of the total Dunhuang group
@malin54686 ай бұрын
I love the clear and precise style of the calligraphy, superior to many of the Dunhuang manuscripts. There is a Tang Lotus Sutra manuscript in the collection of the Middlebury College Museum of Art in Vermont. The calligraphy is good, but not of the same quality. Unfortunately, the Middlebury scroll has not been published recently.
@TheChineseAlphabet6 ай бұрын
That is a good point! Yes, the absolute standard quantitatively represents a tiny fraction of the surviving material.
@kaichan93145 ай бұрын
The supervisor虞昶is the descendent of 虞世南, one of the Top Four Calligraphers in Early Tang, The copiers of the whole project were trained under the style of 虞.
@TheChineseAlphabet5 ай бұрын
Thanks for that info, that’s very useful to know!
@pansaltman6 ай бұрын
Fascinating, so clear handwriting! I am not a scholar, just an amateur self studying Chinese learner