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by luminati 1151 days ago
“ The Stein collection contains over 1000 copies of the Lotus Sutra in Chinese, which were acquired by Sir Marc Aurel Stein in 1907 and 1914, when he visited the so-called ‘Library Cave’ (Cave 17) at the Mogao Caves near Dunhuang, in the present-day Gansu Province in China.”

Nice way of saying theft - Fuck colonialism!

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If this is theft, who's the thief? The explorers who bought the documents, or the monks who sold them?

Relevant Wiki pages:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunhuang_manuscripts

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mogao_Caves