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Early Buddhist Art of China and Central Asia, Volume 3 : the Western Ch'in in Kansu in the Sixteen Kingdoms Period and Inter-relationships with the Buddhist Art of Gandh?ra.

By Martin Rhie , Marylin

Book information

Publisher
BRILL
Year
2010
ISBN
9789004190191, 9004190198
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
80 MB (84207397 bytes)
Series
Early Buddhist Art of China and Central Asia.
Volume
3
Pages
1017\1018
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2016-01-31 17:11:18
Art Central Asian Chinese Buddhist art Asia China

Description

This book, third in a series on the early Buddhist art of China and Central Asia, centers on Buddhist art from the Western Ch in (385-431 A.D.) in eastern Kansu (northwest China), primarily from the cave temples of Ping-ling ssu and Mai-chi shan. A detailed chronological and iconographic study of sculptures and wall paintings in Cave 169 at Ping-ling ssu particularly yields a chronological framework for unlocking the difficult issues of dating early fifth century Chinese Buddhist art, and offers some new insights into textual sources in the Lotus, Hua-yen and Amitabha sutras. Further, this study introduces the iconographpy of the five Buddhas and its relation to the art of Gandhara and the famous five colossal Tan-yao caves at Yun-kang. Bookseller Inventory

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