Journeys on the Silk Road
Subtitle: a desert explorer, Buddha's secret library, and the unearthing of the world's oldest printed book
By: Joyce Morgan and Conrad Walters
Contributors: Walters, Conrad
Publisher: Lyons Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Guilford, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9780762782970
Subjects: East and West; Buddhism; Buddhist literature; Trade routes; Western civilization; Tripiṭaka; Influence; History
Description: The Silk Road once linked China with the Mediterranean. It conveyed merchants, pilgrims and ideas; but its cultures and oases were swallowed by shifting sands. Central to the Silk Road's rediscovery was a man named Aurel Stein, a Hungarian-born scholar and archaeologist employed by the British service. When a Chinese monk broke into a hidden cave in 1900 and uncovered scrolls undisturbed for a thousand years, Stein secured the scrolls, the Diamond Sutra of AD 868. This is the story of the scrolls, and their journey to London.
Notes: Originally published: Sydney : Picador, 2011.

Includes bibliographical references and index.