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Abbot Wang - Definition and Overview |
| Related Words: Ascetic, Brother, Celibate, Cenobite, Friar, Hermit, Mendicant, Monastic, Monk, Palmer, Pilgrim, Prior, Religious |
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Wang Yuan-lu was a Taoist priest acting as Abbot of the caves at in Dunhuang.
He sold ancient Buddhist scriptures to Paul Pelliot after Sir Aurel Stein's initial visit.
Reference
- Hopkirk, Peter (1980). Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Cities and Treasures of Chinese Central Asia. Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 0-87023-435-8.
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