Journeys On The Silk Road Part 10

On the monk who drew blood to copy scrolls: ibid., p 127. For more on blood writing, see John Kieschnick's article "Blood writing in Chinese Buddhism." Journal of the International a.s.sociation of Buddhist Studies, (2000) 23.2, pp 171194.

On the grumpy scribe: John Kieschnick, The Impact of Buddhism on Chinese Material Culture, p 184.

CHAPTER 10: THE THIEVES' ROAD.

"trotted up gaily": Bodleian, Stein MS 205, Stein diary, October 5, 1907.

"The single ancient Sanskrit MS": Bodleian, Stein MS 4, Stein to Allen, October 14, 1907.

"Ram Singh's rheumatism has disappeared": ibid., Stein to Allen, July 28, 1907.

"asking him to keep his own body": Bodleian, Stein MS 205, Stein diary, October 14, 1907.

"like excavating in one's own garden": Aurel Stein, Ruins of Desert Cathay, vol 2, p 360.

"Robbers' Den": Albert von Le Coq, Buried Treasures of Chinese Turkestan, p 91.

"Somewhat in despair": ibid., p 106.

"How much greater would be the chance": Aurel Stein, Ruins of Desert Cathay, vol 2, p 361.

"How often I have thanked you": Bodleian, Stein MS 5, Stein to Allen, January 11, 1908.

"robbers and others": Aurel Stein, Serindia, vol 3, p 1,241.

"I must confess": Aurel Stein, Ruins of Desert Cathay, vol 2, p 376.

"precious but embarra.s.sing impedimenta": ibid., p 376.

"He gave it with more ceremony": ibid., p 383.

"Nowhere in the course of my desert travels": Aurel Stein, "Dr Stein's Expedition in Central Asia," The Geographical Journal, vol 32, no 4 (October 1908), p 350.

"My secret apprehension": Aurel Stein, Ruins of Desert Cathay, vol 2, p 392.

"How the camels held out so far": Bodleian, Stein MS 205, Stein diary, February 10, 1908.

CHAPTER 11: AFFLICTION IN THE ORCHARD.

"I could not help smiling": Bodleian, Stein MS 37, Stein to Andrews, March 6, 1908.

"On one occasion": Bodleian, Stein MS 5, Stein to Allen, June 10, 1908.

"I shall be more than ever bound to the collection": ibid.

"It is sad to think that I shall have to leave Dash": ibid., January 26, 1908.

"Disgust at having to employ such a scoundrel": Bodleian, Stein MS 205, Stein diary, July 17, 1908.

"You can imagine the trouble": Bodleian, Stein MS 5, Stein to Allen, June 23, 1908.

"He suffered awful pains": ibid., July 27, 1908.

"Marmite turned to use at last": Bodleian, Stein MS 205, Stein diary, July 23, 1908.

"You can imagine my feelings": Bodleian, Stein MS 5, Stein to Allen, June 23, 1908.

"You have nothing to reproach yourself with": Bodleian, Stein MS 205, Stein diary, July 6, 1908.

"Presented by Dr M.A. Stein to Chiang-ssu-yeh": Bodleian, Stein MS 37, Stein to Andrews, May 17, 1907.

"Often as I look back": Aurel Stein, Ruins of Desert Cathay, vol 1, p 117.

"Then, as I rode on": ibid., vol 2, p 439.

CHAPTER 12: FROZEN.

"He recognized me when I stroked him": Aurel Stein, Ruins of Desert Cathay, vol 2, p 467.

"What he succ.u.mbed to": Bodleian, Stein MS 5, Stein to Allen, October 16, 1908.

"The world appeared to shrink": Aurel Stein, Ruins of Desert Cathay, vol 2, p 480.

"The aid of an experienced surgeon": ibid., p 483.

"so gorged they could hardly move": David Fraser, The Marches of Hindustan: The record of a journey in Thibet, Trans-Himalayan India, Chinese Turkestan, Russian Turkestan and Persia, p 264.

"Here fell Andrew Dalgleish": Charles Murray, Earl of Dunmore, "Journeyings in the Pamirs and Central Asia," The Geographical Journal, vol 2, no 5 (November 1893), p 386.

On the disputed territory of the Siachen Glacier: Tim McGirk and Aravind Adiga, "War at the Top of the World," Time Asia, May 4, 2005.

"Dr [Schmitt] a.s.sures me": Bodleian, Stein MS 5, Stein to Allen, October 16, 1908.

"I never thought of such a communication": ibid., November 16, 1908.

"If you have a chance": ibid., October 26, 1908.

"Things might have fared a great deal worse": Bodleian, Stein MS 37, Stein to Andrews, November 14, 1908.

On Stein's health in India: Annabel Walker, Aurel Stein: Pioneer of the Silk Road, p 187.

"May kindly divinities protect them": Bodleian, Stein MS 5, Stein to Allen, December 17, 1908.

CHAPTER 13: YESTERDAY, HAVING DRUNK TOO MUCH Drunk . . .

"the value of a domestic slave": Lionel Giles, Six Centuries at Tunhuang, p 36.

"Chief of the hundred plants": ibid., p 28.

"Yesterday, having drunk too much": ibid., pp 3334.

"Yesterday, Sir, while in your cups": ibid., p 34.

"Even if Heaven and Earth collapse": Lionel Giles, "Dated Chinese Ma.n.u.scripts in the Stein Collection," Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, vol 11, no 1 (1943), p 160.

"What had this neat, almost calligraphic ma.n.u.script": Aurel Stein, Ruins of Desert Cathay, vol 2, p 187.

"Jesus the Buddha": Tsui Chi (translator), "The Lower (Second?) Section of the Manichean Hymns," Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, vol 11, no 1 (1943), pp 174219.

"Nestorian Christians could safely address their prayers to": Bodleian, Stein MS 91, Stein to von Le Coq, March 14, 1926.

"Iron snakes belched fire": Victor H. Mair, Tun-huang Popular Narratives, pp 8788.

Extensive work on the Dunhuang medical ma.n.u.scripts has been undertaken by w.a.n.g Shumin. See http://idp.bl.uk/4DCGI/education/ medicine_society/abstracts.a4d.

On the importance of almanacs: Susan Whitfield and Ursula Sims-Williams, The Silk Road: Travel, trade, war and faith, p 82. See also: Susan Whitfield, "Under the Censor's Eye: Printed Almanacs and Censors.h.i.+p in Ninth-Century China," British Library Journal, vol 24, part 1, 1998, pp 422.

On the Dunhuang star chart: Jean-Marc Bonnet-Bidaud, Franoise Praderie and Susan Whitfield, "The Dunhuang Chinese Sky: A Comprehensive Study of the Oldest Known Star Atlas," Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, vol 12, no 1 (March 2009), pp 3959.

On the painted silk banner retrieved by Paul Pelliot: Joseph Needham, Science and Civilisation in China, vol 5, part 7, pp 22223.

On paper flowers: Susan Whitfield and Ursula Sims-Williams, The Silk Road: Travel, trade, war and faith, p 268.

CHAPTER 14: STORMY DEBUT.

"I am afraid you will find": Jeannette Mirsky, Sir Aurel Stein: Archaeological explorer, p 87.

"In the course of my explorations": British Museum archives, CE 32/23/23/2, Stein letter, May 20, 1909.

"The cellar has been made": Bodleian, Stein MS 37, Andrews to Stein, August 11, 1909.

"He has true British terrier blood": "Dog Explorer: Adventures of a Fox Terrier," Daily Mail, May 26, 1909.

The story of Stein's camp chair: George Macartney, "Explorations in Central Asia, 19068-Discussion," The Geographical Journal, vol 34, no 3 (September 1909), p 265.

For more on Florence Lorimer, see Helen w.a.n.g's article "Stein's Recording Angel-Miss F.M.G. Lorimer," Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, series 3, 8, 2 (1998), pp 207228.

For more on the ma.n.u.scripts sent to Pelliot in Paris, see Frances Wood's article "A Tentative Listing of the Stein Ma.n.u.scripts in Paris 19111919." In Sir Aurel Stein, Colleagues and Collections. British Museum Research Publication Number 184, 2012. www.britishmuseum.org/pdf/12_Wood%20(Tentative%20listiing).pdf.

"extravagant multiplication of limbs": Festival of Empire, 1911, Guide Book and Catalogue, Bemrose & Sons, London, 1911, p 17.

"epoch-making importance": "Buddhist Paintings at the Festival of Empire," The Times, September 7, 1911.

"Greatly delighted was I": Aurel Stein, Ruins of Desert Cathay, vol 2, p 189.

Stein captions his photograph: "Roll of block-printed Buddhist text with frontispiece from wood-engraving, dated 864AD." Elsewhere he refers to the scroll with "a date of production corresponding to 860AD." See Ruins of Desert Cathay, vol 2, fig 191 and p 189.

"Late last night": Bodleian, Stein MS 8, Stein to Allen, June 17, 1912.

"Many congratulations": Bodleian, Stein MS 12, Allen to Stein, June 1912.

"I cannot express on paper": Bodleian, Stein MS 96, Chiang to Stein, July 30, 1912.

"Mr. Macartney has been kind to me": ibid.

"Deaf as he is": Bodleian, Stein MS 96, Macartney to Stein, October 14, 1912.

"Chiang-ssu-yeh can't quite make up his mind": Bodleian, Stein MS 41, Macartney to Stein, February 12, 1913.

"Ma.s.sacres of Chinese officials": Bodleian, Stein MS 96, Macartney to Stein, May 24, 1912.

"Finally there is the substantial printed roll": British Library archives, Or 13114, "Correspondence with M. Pelliot regarding Chinese doc.u.ments," October 2, 1912. This information courtesy of Dr. Frances Wood.

"The more I see of this glorious land": Bodleian, Stein MS 40, Stein to Andrews, May 6, 1912.

"In a way I am sorry": Bodleian, Stein MS 42, Stein to Andrews, June 29, 1913.

"the Queen wore a hat": "The King and the Museum," The Times, May 8, 1914, p 4.