Library of Lost Horizons: An Antiquarian Voyage

Hay, Trevor
Library of Lost Horizons: An Antiquarian Voyage

Library of Lost Horizons: An Antiquarian Voyage

Hay, Trevor

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'To begin with I saw Hilton’s tale of Shangri-La as an evocative fictional motif in the non-fictional tapestry of my collection, a metaphor for this journey in old books from Desert Cathay to The Land of Snows. Now I begin to see a different motif…it’s the missing sutra in the empty cave in the hole in the cliffside outside Dunhuang...'

The author reflects on his own fifty-year voyage of discovery of Asia, culminating in a journey to far western China in 2018; to Dunhuang, the oasis town on the fringe of the Gobi and Lop deserts that for centuries gave access to the Silk Roads – and to the 'Caves of a Thousand Buddhas'. These temple-caves once concealed the world's oldest printed book, known as the Diamond Sutra, but as he contemplates the significance of the missing sutra and an empty cave, he finds himself confronted by the world’s oldest question.

Author:   Hay, Trevor
Publisher:   Australian Scholarly Publishing
ISBN:  

9781922454911


Publication Date:   01 March 2023
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'To begin with I saw Hilton’s tale of Shangri-La as an evocative fictional motif in the non-fictional tapestry of my collection, a metaphor for this journey in old books from Desert Cathay to The Land of Snows. Now I begin to see a different motif…it’s the missing sutra in the empty cave in the hole in the cliffside outside Dunhuang...'

The author reflects on his own fifty-year voyage of discovery of Asia, culminating in a journey to far western China in 2018; to Dunhuang, the oasis town on the fringe of the Gobi and Lop deserts that for centuries gave access to the Silk Roads – and to the 'Caves of a Thousand Buddhas'. These temple-caves once concealed the world's oldest printed book, known as the Diamond Sutra, but as he contemplates the significance of the missing sutra and an empty cave, he finds himself confronted by the world’s oldest question.

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Author:   Hay, Trevor
Publisher:   Australian Scholarly Publishing
ISBN:  

9781922454911


Publication Date:   01 March 2023
Availability:  
This item is in stock and will be dispatched immediately.
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