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International Dunhuang Project - Dunhuang Collection
The International Dunhuang Project (IDP) is the gold-standard in websites about the Silk Road. Associated with museums in Europe, Asia Minor, the United States, China, Japan and Korea, the IDP works to digitize (and make publicly available) the...
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British Library - Silk Road & Dunhuang
The British Library is closely associated with the International Dunhuang Project (IDP), and curates a large collection of manuscripts and images from Dunhuang. Their site is clean, easy to use and has an excellent introduction to Dunhuang and the Silk...
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British Museum - Dunhuang Collection
The British Museum is one of the supporters of the International Dunhuang Project, and it hosts an impressive collection of artifacts - ceramics, textiles, art and manuscripts - from Dunhuang. The 'Caves of the Thousand Buddhas' exhibit contains an...
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Silk Road Seattle - History of Dunhuang
Silk Road Seattle is directed by Professor Daniel C. Waugh of the University of Washington. It has a many essays on and photographs of the Silk Road, from Kashgar to Chang'an.
These essays describe Dunhuang's history in detail, ranging from its...
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Khotan - IDP: Silk Road - War and Faith
IDP's colourful, picture-filled and clear introduction to Kashgar. Very recommended.
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Digital Silk Road - Dunhuang's Library Cave
Here is an article on the discovery of Dunhuang's 'Library Cave,' furnished with photographs and other items from rare books.
* Digital Silk Road's main page
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British Library - Dunhuang Collection - Diamond Sutra
Susan Whitfield is the head of IDP and extremely knowledgeable about Dunhuang. Here she gives a brief interview on possibly the oldest printed book, a ninth-century copy of the Diamond Cutter Sutra.
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British Library - Dunhuang Collection - Sutra of Filial Piety
Our neat divisions of texts and practices into one religion or another are overly simple. Here is a Buddhist sutra that incorporates the Confucian ideals of loyalty to one's parents. The earliest known copy was found at Dunhuang.
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British Library - Dunhuang Collection - Ashem Vohu
Buddhism wasn't the only religion of the Silk Road. Sogdian merchants spread goods, languages and religions across the Silk Road. Here is an example of a Zoroastrian prayer, the Ashem Vohu, written in Sogdian and removed from Dunhuang.
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The Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts - Dunhuang Art History