Most of the scriptures found in Dunhuang Tibetan Scripture Cave, from the Jin Dynasty to the Song and Yuan Dynasties, are written in the Tang Dynasty, and many of them were inscribed by scholars and years, providing people with rare physical materials for understanding the Tang Dynasty classics and their calligraphy.
At present, the National Library has the largest collection of Dunhuang scriptures in China, and Nanjing Museum has more than 30 Dunhuang scriptures. Because these classics have a long history and irreplaceable uniqueness, each one has an unusual collection experience and has high cultural relics and academic value.
The collection of Dunhuang scriptures in Nanjing Museum spans from the Northern Wei Dynasty to the Five Dynasties, and most of them are works of the Tang Dynasty. These works have a history of 1 0,500 years, and the most recent works have a history of 1 0,654,38+0,000 years. All the classics of China are cursive except one, and most of them are regular script and Weibei script. The contents of these Buddhist scriptures are mainly Buddhist scriptures, such as Lotus Peanut Sutra, Thirty-seven Buddhist Sutra, Mahayana Sutra, Geocentric Theory of Yoga Master, Infinite Life Sutra, Amitabha Sutra, Mahayana Sutra and so on. There are also Lao Zi's copy of Tao Te Ching and the copy of Mandarin after the Spring and Autumn Period, which are rare among the Dunhuang scriptures found, and their academic value and data value cannot be underestimated. In addition, there were two scriptures written in Uighur in the Tang Dynasty, which were rare among the Dunhuang scriptures found. Most of these scriptures are well preserved, and the longest one has 500 lines and is 24 meters long.
The origin of Dunhuang scriptures in Nanjing Museum is also unusual. 1936, Beiping History Museum was merged into the preparatory office of the Central Museum, and among the precious cultural relics allocated, there were four Dunhuang scriptures. 1942, the central museum organized staff to go to Dunhuang county, Gansu province to rescue 12 Dunhuang scriptures. In the early days of the People's Republic of China, the Ministry of Culture of East China allocated 1 1 precious Dunhuang scriptures from different sources to Nanjing Museum for collection and research. In addition, Liu Houze, a descendant of Liu E, a famous writer, industrialist and collector in the late Qing Dynasty, Rong Yiren, a former vice president, his younger brother Rong, Zeng, the late female director of Nanjing Museum, and Qin Guliu, a famous calligrapher, painter and antique collector, all donated their Dunhuang manuscripts to Nanjing Museum, making them more historical, humanistic and legendary.