Donors of Longmen : Faith, Politics, and Patronage in Medieval Chinese Buddhist Sculpture /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: McNair, Amy
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, 2007.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Art patronage > China.
Buddhist art and symbolism > China > Longmen Caves.
Sculpture, Chinese > China > Longmen Caves > Tang-Five dynasties, 618-960.
Sculpture, Chinese > China > Longmen Caves > Three kingdoms-Sui dynasty, 220-618.
Buddhist sculpture > China > Longmen Caves.
Buddhist gods, in art.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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