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Paul Eugène Pelliot was a French sinologist and Orientalist best known for his explorations of Central Asia and the Silk Road regions, and for his acquisition of many important Tibetan Empire-era manuscripts and Chinese texts at the Sachu printing centre storage caves (Dunhuang), known as the Dunhuang manuscripts.

Iside Carbone holds a PhD from the Department of Anthropology, UCL. Her research interests focus on Chinese art and material culture in particular, and on museum ethnography as well as anthropology of art in general. Initiator of the project, Asia Collections Network (ACN), she is also co-founder and director of the non-profit association, Asia Collections Network – Europe (ACN – Europe). Iside is member of EACS (European Association for Chinese Studies), EAAA (European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology) and ACHS (Association of Critical Heritage Studies).

Paul Dundas was a British Indologist, an honorary fellow in Sanskrit language and Head of Asian studies at the University of Edinburgh. His teachings and research focused extensively on understanding Jainism, Buddhism, Sanskrit literature and Middle Indo-Aryan philology. He was regarded as one of the leading scholars in Jaina and Prakrit studies and he served on the Council of the Pali Text Society.

The National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) was set up to save some of the UK’s finest heritage at risk of loss. Taken together, the treasures it saves form a permanent memorial to those who have given their lives for the UK.

As a fund of last resort, NHMF provides financial assistance towards the acquisition, preservation and maintenance of some of the UK’s finest objects and landscapes. These range from historic houses and works of art to trains, boats and ancient landscapes. NHMF creates a world-class collection that belongs to the people of the United Kingdom forever.

NHMF receives annual grant-in-aid of £5million from the UK government to help save some of our most-loved treasures from being lost forever. The Fund originated in 1946 as the National Land Fund but was changed to its present form in 1980.