The scattering of manuscripts to several countries has taken Tunhuang studies across the seas so that today Paris, London, Japan and Leningrad have all become centers of study.
而散佚各國的敦煌寫卷，也使敦煌學飄洋過海，如今巴黎、倫敦、日本和列寧格勒都成為敦煌學研究重鎮。