Donors of Longmen : faith, politics, and patronage in medieval Chinese Buddhist sculpture /
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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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, ©2007. |
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |
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.