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{ "viewingDirection": "left-to-right", "metadata": [ { "label": "Subject(s)", "value": "China; World War, 1939-1945" }, { "label": "Language(s)", "value": "English and Chinese" }, { "label": "Physical Location", "value": "Needham Research Institute" }, { "label": "Extent", "value": "1 volume, 2 sheets." }, { "label": "Funding", "value": "" }, { "label": "Abstract", "value": "p style='text-align: justify;'In this journal, Dr. Needham records his journey in a truck from Chungking (重慶 Chongqing) to Lanchow (蘭州 Lanzhou) via Chengtu (成都 Chengdu), then up through Gansu province to Tunhuang (敦煌 Dunhuang) and back. [Full itinerary]. On the first leg of the journey to Lanchow, he was accompanied by SBSCO staff members H.T. Huang (Huang Hsing-Tsung / Huang Xingzong) 黃興宗 and Liao Hung-Ying (Liao Hongying) 廖鴻英, as well as Derek Bryan from the British Embassy, Edward Beltz, an American oil geologist, and a young scientist Chen Tzu-hsin (Chen Zixin) 陳自信. In another truck travelled the famous explorer Sir Eric Teichman (1884-1944). From Lanchow to Chienfodong and back he was accompanied by H.T. Huang (who travelled back to Lanchow separately), Rewi Alley (1897-1987), Sun Kuang-chun (Sun Guangjun) 孫光俊 and

{ "viewingDirection": "left-to-right", "metadata": [ { "label": "Binding", "value": "pDetchōsō 粘葉装/p" }, { "label": "Uniform Title", "value": "大毘盧舎那成仏経疏" }, { "label": "Origin Place", "value": "Mount Kōya (高野山), Japan" }, { "label": "Provenance", "value": "pAcquired by purchase in 1949./p" }, { "label": "Physical Location", "value": "Cambridge University Library" }, { "label": "Extent", "value": "3 jō 帖 Leaf height: 246 mm, width: 159 mm." }, { "label": "Funding", "value": "" }, { "label": "Abstract", "value": "p style='text-align: justify;'Daibirushana jōbutsukyō sho (大毘盧舎那成仏経疏) is a commentary on Daibirushana jōbutsukyō (大毘盧舎那成仏経疏, Mahāvairocana-sūtra, in short, Dainichikyō 大日経). The commentary was given orally by Shan Wu Wei 善無畏 and written down by Yi Xing 一行. Daibirushana jōbutsukyō sho (in 20 volumes) was brought to Japan by Kūkai 空海 (774-835). Kūkai (also called Kōbō-daishi 弘法大師) was the founder of the Shingon sect of Buddhism (真言宗) and established Kongōbu-ji 金剛峰寺, a temple on Mount Kōya (高野山) in 816. Kongōbu-ji was the head temple of the Shingon-shu 真言宗 sect. Publications which were