Donors of Longmen : faith, politics, and patronage in medieval Chinese Buddhist sculpture /

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Donors of Longmen is the first work in a Western language to re-create the history of the Longmen Grottoes, one of China's great stone sculpture treasure houses. Longmen, a UNESCO World Heritage site located near the old capital of Luoyang in modern Henan Province, consists of thousands of anci...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McNair, Amy
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, ©2007.
Temas:
220-960
Buddhist gods in art.
Buddhist sculpture > China > Longmen Caves.
Sculpture, Chinese > China > Longmen Caves > Three kingdoms-Sui dynasty, 220-618.
Sculpture, Chinese > China > Longmen Caves > Tang-Five dynasties, 618-960.
Buddhist art and symbolism > China > Longmen Caves.
Art patronage.
Dieux bouddhiques dans l'art.
Mécénat.
patronage.
ART > Sculpture & Installation.
ART > Subjects & Themes > Religious.
Buddhist art and symbolism.
Buddhist sculpture.
Sculpture, Chinese > Tang-Five dynasties.
Sculpture, Chinese > Three kingdoms-Sui dynasty.
China > Longmen Caves.
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Sumario:Donors of Longmen is the first work in a Western language to re-create the history of the Longmen Grottoes, one of China's great stone sculpture treasure houses. Longmen, a UNESCO World Heritage site located near the old capital of Luoyang in modern Henan Province, consists of thousands of ancient cave chapels and shrines containing Buddhist icons of all sizes that were carved into the towering limestone cliffs from the fifth to the eighth centuries. Beyond its superb sculpture, Longmen also preserves thousands of engraved dedicatory inscriptions by its donors, who included emperors and empresses, aristocrats, court eunuchs, artisans, monks, nuns, lay societies, female palace officials, male civil and military officials, and ordinary lay believers. Based on wide reading of both Asian and Western-language scholarship and careful analysis of the architecture, epigraphy, and iconography of the site, Amy McNair provides a rich and detailed examination of the dynamics of faith, politics, and money at Longmen, beginning with the inception of the site at Guyang Grotto in 493 and concluding with the last major dated project, the forty-eight Amitabhas added to the Great Vairocana Image Shrine in 730. Through her sensitive and well-informed exploration of Longmen's huge repository of remarkable early sculpture, McNair gives voice to a wide array of medieval believers, many of them traditionally excluded from history. Hers will be the definitive work on Longmen for years to come.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (x, 230 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and (pages 213-225) index.
ISBN:9781435665965
1435665961
9780824862251
0824862252

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