Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c16.s1.t4.10

v2.c16.s1.t4.10

After decades of diligent work, Chhaya Bhattacharya-Haesner, an independent scholar and an expert on Chinese collections at the National Museum of India, has finished a book on its Dunhuang and Turpan collections and plan to publish it in Germany in 2014. She indicates, those displayed just account for one-tenth of the total collections and most of them are objects rather than books and manuscripts, and the arrangement is already finished. They could help find out ancient culture, tradition and religious belief in relevant regions.