Dunhuang – Untold Tales, Untold Riches
Visual Arts
The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series
Description
Description
This exhibition showcases nearly 120 artefacts that represent all the core aspects of Dunhuang grotto art and fully demonstrate the vast diversity of Dunhuang culture. Highlights include three replica caves, a 13-metre-long statue of the Nirvāṇa Buddha, wooden movable type in Uighur script, Buddhist sūtras written in Tibetan script, The Book of Psalms written in Syriac script, the only extant printed copy in the world of Essential Mantras in Tangut script and copies of the cave murals produced by the founding pioneers of the National Dunhuang Art Institute (precursor of the Dunhuang Academy), including Mr Chang Shuhong and Mr Duan Wenjie.
Organiser / Presenter
Leisure and Cultural Services Department
, Dunhuang Academy
, Hong Kong Heritage Museum
Co-organiser / Co-presenter
Dunhuang Academy
Note：This event record is compiled from "Hong Kong Visual Arts Yearbook 2014" published by Department of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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Indoor / Outdoor
Indoor