Wang Yuanlu opens Mogao Cave 17
The Daoist caretaker Wang Yuanlu breaks through into the sealed Library Cave while clearing sand from an adjoining cave, exposing its contents for the first time in nine centuries.
Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.
Subjects
- Mogao Caves · site · China
- Dunhuang · city · China
Evidence
Verified — Every field is supported by a cited authoritative source.
International Dunhuang Programme
Catalogues and digitally reunites the material removed from Mogao Cave 17 and other eastern Silk Road sites between 1900 and the 1920s, now held in London, Paris, Beijing, St Petersburg and Tokyo. The dispersal is physical and permanent; the reassembly is digital.
British Library and partner institutions in China, France, Russia, Japan and Germany · Verified
Ongoing digitisation and cataloguing consortium
Recorded on Mogao Caves
- Mogao Cave 17 is sealed
- Wang Yuanlu opens Mogao Cave 17
- The Dunhuang manuscripts are dispersed
- Mogao Caves inscribed on the World Heritage List
Related
Related because they share a subject in the Atlas — never because the text looks similar.
- Mogao Caves inscribed on the World Heritage List · 1987
- The Dunhuang manuscripts are dispersed · 1907-1908
- Mogao Cave 17 is sealed · ~1000 CE