On: Lost 8th century Japanese medical text by Buddhist...

[rippercushions]

You can only wonder how many documents like this were lost in China during the Cultural Revolution, when thousands of temples and everything else associated with the Four Olds [1] were willfully destroyed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Olds

[wil421 → rippercushions]

Reminds me of a Tibetan library I saw on Reddit the other day. Here’s the wiki link[1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakya_Monastery

[abudabi123 → rippercushions]

Dam construction in Egypt and China very likely destroyed documents waiting to be found.