Part 9 (2/2)
”He had spent many a hot day”: ibid.
”If they are people”: ibid., May 18, 1907.
”mental distemper”: Aurel Stein, Ruins of Desert Cathay, vol 2, p 71.
”So I have learned at last”: Bodleian, Stein MS 4, Stein to Allen, May 18, 1907.
”The trees bent”: Catherine Macartney, An English Lady in Chinese Turkestan, pp 1156.
”Overtaken by violent sand storm”: Bodleian, Stein MS 204, Stein diary, April 11, 1907.
”with the strength of a hidden magnet”: Aurel Stein, Ruins of Desert Cathay, vol 2, p 164.
”The skill of man”: Mildred Cable and Francesca French, The Gobi Desert, p 63.
”There could be no more appropriate place of rest”: Bodleian, Stein MS 4, Stein to Allen, May 18, 1907.
”sound like that of distant carts”: Aurel Stein, Ruins of Desert Cathay, vol 2, p 161.
”divine sweeping”: ibid., p 162.
”My brave [Chiang]”: Bodleian, Stein MS 4, Stein to Allen, May 18, 1907.
”He looked a very queer person”: Aurel Stein, Ruins of Desert Cathay, vol 2, p 165.
”To rely on the temptation of money alone”: ibid., p 167.
”[But] this was not the time”: ibid., p 167.
”There rose on a horseshoe-shaped dais”: ibid., p 168.
”I could not help feeling”: ibid., p 168.
”saintly Munchausen”: ibid., p 170.
”Would the pious guardian”: ibid., p 170.
”There was nothing for me”: ibid., p 171.
CHAPTER 8: KEY TO THE CAVE.
”The sight of the small room”: Aurel Stein, Ruins of Desert Cathay, vol 2, p 172.
”There can be little doubt”: ibid., p 187.
”Such insignificant relics”: ibid., p 188.
”No place could have been better adapted”: Aurel Stein, Serindia, vol 2, p 811.
”It would have required a whole staff”: Aurel Stein, Ruins of Desert Cathay, vol 2, p 175.
”temple of learning in Ta-Ying-kuo”: ibid., p 191.
”Should we have time”: ibid., p 174.
”embarras des richesses”: ibid., p 195.
”Independence”: Bodleian, Stein MS 4, Stein to Allen, June 9, 1907.
”Very tired with low fever”: Bodleian, Stein MS 204, Stein diary, June 10, 1907.
”gloomy prison of centuries”: Aurel Stein, Ruins of Desert Cathay, vol 2, p 193.
”He had already been gradually led”: ibid., p 190.
”I secured as much as he possibly dared to give”: Bodleian, Stein MS 37, Stein to Andrews, June 15, 1907.
”We parted in fullest amity”: Aurel Stein, Ruins of Desert Cathay, vol 2, p 194.
CHAPTER 9: THE HIDDEN GEM.
”Thus shall you think”: A.F. Price (translator), The Diamond Sutra.
On the earliest known woodcut ill.u.s.tration: Clarissa von Spee, The Printed Image in China from the 8th to the 21st Centuries, p 15.
”this ox may personally receive”: Lionel Giles, Descriptive Catalogue of the Chinese Ma.n.u.scripts from Tunhuang in the British Museum, p 32.
On an official and a homesick woman who copied the Diamond Sutra: ibid., p 26.
On the woman pierced with knives: John Kieschnick, The Impact of Buddhism on Chinese Material Culture, pp 169170.
”fragrant,” and ”believing heart”: Lionel Giles, Descriptive Catalogue of the Chinese Ma.n.u.scripts from Tunhuang in the British Museum, pp 3233.
On the elderly man who mixed blood and ink: Stephen F. Teiser, The Scripture on the Ten Kings and the Making of Purgatory in Medieval Chinese Buddhism, p 126.
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