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Journeys on the Silk Road

a desert explorer, Buddha's secret library, and the unearthing of the world's oldest printed book
2012
Discusses the journey of Aurel Stein, a Hungarian-born scholar and archeologist employed by the British service, ashe traveled the Silk Road in the early twentieth century to find the Buddhist Diamond Sutra, the world's oldest printed book.
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