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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Detalles Bibliográficos
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.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Emperor as Tathāgata
  • The mechanics of a karmic gift of sculpture
  • The rhetoric of expenditure
  • The politics of filial piety
  • Cīnasthāna preserves the Dharma
  • Rouge and powder money
  • The satellite grottoes
  • Salvation for one
  • Epilogue : the later life of the site
  • Appendix : Chinese texts of Longmen inscriptions.

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