Buddhist scrolls from the Tang capital - Dunhuang manuscripts

[@pengruiqio]

love those manuscript videos

[@TheChineseAlphabet]

Me too!

[@kaichan9314]

The supervisor虞昶was a 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.

[@TheChineseAlphabet]

Thanks for that info, that’s very useful to know!

[@malin5468]

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

[@malin5468]

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.

[@TheChineseAlphabet]

That is a good point! Yes, the absolute standard quantitatively represents a tiny fraction of the surviving material.

[@pansaltman]

Fascinating, so clear handwriting! I am not a scholar, just an amateur self studying Chinese learner

[@TheChineseAlphabet]

Yes, these manuscripts are beautifully written.