Chinese artifacts held abroad

Mahayana sutra

encyclopedia

a collection of medieval manuscripts found in the caves at Dunhuang

9th-century manuscript book on divination written in Old Turkic

Chinese encyclopedia completed in 1725

Chinese encyclopedia compiled between 977 and 983

Tang dynasty handscroll (China) by Han Gan depicting a horse (MET, 1977.78)

travelogue in Classical Chinese by Korean Buddhist monk Hyecho, who traveled from Korea to India in 723 – 728 CE; lost but recovered in the Dunhuang manuscripts

star atlas from ancient Chinese astronomy, dated to the Tang dynasty (618–907)

anonymous painting

early Chinese language manuscripts blending Taoist, Buddhist, and Christian teachings, connected with the 7th century mission of Alopen, a Church of the East bishop from Sassanian Mesopotamia

Chinese gold seal found in Japan

handscroll by Chinese artist Chen Rong

Chinese ceramics and related items at the British Museum

Bronze heads associated with Chinese zodiac

Ming Dynasty stele

set of Old Tibetan manuscripts found in the Mogao Grottoes

9th-century Christian painting found in the Mogao Caves

collection of texts

set of pottery Buddhist sculptures from China

wall paintings from a Christian temple in Qocho

Yuan dynasty 158 cm×60 cm silk painting describing the cosmology of Manichaeism

Tang dynasty poem

painting by Muqi Fachang

painting

blue-and-white temple vases from the Yuan dynasty

Yüen dynasty Manichaean silk painting

literary work

painting of Jesus Christ as a Manichaean Prophet

painting by Gu Kaizhi

Series of Chinese songs and poems

Tang dynasty painting by Zhang Xuan

Chinese rime dictionary

Funerary art at the Xi'an Beilin Museum in China

tang dynasty tablet

Sanskrit manuscript

Yuan Dynasty wall painting by Zhu Haogu