Title: Journeys on the Silk Road
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.
Subjects: East and West, Buddhism, Buddhist literature, Trade routes, Western civilization, Tripiṭaka, Influence, History, Buddhism, china
Places: China, Silk Road
Time periods: 20th century