Fieldwork of GCBS researcher Ven. Hui Wen

Venerable Hui Wen, a Phd student at GCBS, has just completed a field trip to the Mogao 莫高 caves in Dunhuang 敦煌, Gansu Province, in the framework of her research on the iconography and symbolic representations found at the center parts of the ceilings of Mogao caves. She also met the researchers of Dunhuang Academy, including her co-supervisor Prof. Neil Schmid, and worked in the academy’s library.

Hui Wen with researchers from Dunhuang, including her co-supervisor Prof. Neil Schmid (Professor at the Dunhuang Academy)
At the entrance to the Mogao cave complex (consisting of more than 500 caves with wall paintings)
Work in the Library of the Dunhuang Academy