Site Map
- Welcome
- About This Course
- About This Site
- Syllabus
- Presenter and Class Schedule
- Presentation Topic Suggestions
- Class 1 Session A Silk Road Overview and Arrival of the Chinese
- Class 1 Session B Basics
- Class 2 Session A Xuanzang’s Journey – From Chang’An to Jade Gate
- Class 2 Session B Jade Gate to Samarkand
- Class 3 Session A Samarkand, Iron Gate, Balkh, and Bamiyan
- Class 3 Session B. Greco-Buddhist Art
- Class 4 Session A The Journey Home April 4
- Class 4 Session B Xuanzang’s Legacy April 4
- Class 5 Session A Introduction to Aurel Stein: His Overall Career April 11
- Class 5 Session B Hindu Kush and Pamirs to Kashgar April 11
- Class 6 Session A Khotan April 18
- Class 6 Session B Niya Oct-Dec, 1906. April 18
- Class 7 Session A Lop Nur December 1906. April 25
- Class 7 Session B Loulan and The Tarim Basin Mummies April 25
- Class 8 Session A Miran February 1907
- Class 8 Session B Dunhuang March to May, 1907
- Class 9 Session A The Mogao Caves
- Class 9 Session B The Diamond Sutra
- Class 10 Session A Death by Thirst -- or by Ice Mid-1908. May 16
- Class 10 Session B. Stein’s Historical Legacy. May 16
- Reference Material
- Articles
- Wriggins 1 to 35.pdf
- Wriggins pp. 36 to 55.pdf
- Wriggins pp 159 to 201.pdf
- The Second Central Asian Expedition of Aurel Stein 1906-1908
- Xuanzang on the Silk Road
- Jade Gate or Yumen Pass
- Xuanzang at the Iron Gates
- "The Princess in the Tower”
- Xuanzang at Khotan
- Finding The Diamond Sutra
- Diamond Sutra Translation.pdf
- Maps
- More Maps
- Photos
- Stein's Team
- Aurel Stein, 1900, in Lahore
- Aurel Stein 1909
- Chiang-Ssu-Yeh - Scholar and Stein Secretary/Interpreter
- Stein and Dash 1913.jpg
- Stein Camels at Keriya.jpg
- Stein’s Yaks & Ponies in the Pamirs
- Surveyor Ram Singh.jpg
- Hassan Akhun - Stein’s Camel Master
- Hassan Akhun with Camel
- Aurel Stein in Later Years.jpg