This paper is the first one of a series of articles on rough sktch of Dunhuang murals. Through the investigation of Dunhuang MSS. SP 83 & P. 3998 and with the help of extant murals, the author of this paper thinks that the MSS. SP. 83 & P. 3998 are the same one which is the rough sktch for story of Gold Light Sutra of Dunhuang Mogao Cave 154 of early years of the ninth century. In view of the above, the author has alsomade a tentative research on the date of which the rough sktch of mural first appearedand used in Dunhuang.
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