Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 7-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

South American Archaeology. An Introduction to the Archaeology of the South American Continent with special Reference to the Early History of Peru. By ...

South American Archaeology. An Introduction to the Archaeology of the South American Continent... II6 Revz"ews 0/ Books priest, Wang Tao-Shi, who knew enough about its value to induce him to shut it off with a brick wall. Stein cleverly played off his appreciation of the famous Chinese Buddhist pilgrim to India, Hsiian-Tsang, so as to establish a bond of sympathy between himself and Wang, by placing himself in the light of another such pious devotee and admirer of the Buddha. When he succeeded in catching the first glimpse of the library, it appeared as a solid mass of bundles of manuscripts and votive paint­ ings on silk, rising from the floor to a height of ten feet and filling, as was found later, about five hundred cubic feet. The collection had lain buried in its rock chapel for centuries, and had been espied by Wang Tao-Shi through a crack in a closed up chamber. This Wang after­ wards further fortified with a brick wall in front of the crack. Stein's story of how he parleyed and fenced with the Tao-Shi in order to induce him first to show, and later on to put aside, "for further in­ spection ", the most promising of the manuscripts makes very good read­ ing indeed. In http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Historical Review Oxford University Press

South American Archaeology. An Introduction to the Archaeology of the South American Continent with special Reference to the Early History of Peru. By ...

Download PDF
3 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/oxford-university-press/south-american-archaeology-an-introduction-to-the-archaeology-of-the-LRtGOuSRS6

References (0)

References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Copyright
Copyright 1912, by The Macmillan Company
ISSN
0002-8762
eISSN
1937-5239
DOI
10.1086/ahr/18.1.116
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

II6 Revz"ews 0/ Books priest, Wang Tao-Shi, who knew enough about its value to induce him to shut it off with a brick wall. Stein cleverly played off his appreciation of the famous Chinese Buddhist pilgrim to India, Hsiian-Tsang, so as to establish a bond of sympathy between himself and Wang, by placing himself in the light of another such pious devotee and admirer of the Buddha. When he succeeded in catching the first glimpse of the library, it appeared as a solid mass of bundles of manuscripts and votive paint­ ings on silk, rising from the floor to a height of ten feet and filling, as was found later, about five hundred cubic feet. The collection had lain buried in its rock chapel for centuries, and had been espied by Wang Tao-Shi through a crack in a closed up chamber. This Wang after­ wards further fortified with a brick wall in front of the crack. Stein's story of how he parleyed and fenced with the Tao-Shi in order to induce him first to show, and later on to put aside, "for further in­ spection ", the most promising of the manuscripts makes very good read­ ing indeed. In

Journal

The American Historical Review – Oxford University Press

Published: Oct 1, 1912

There are no references for this article.