Donors of Longmen: faith, politics, and patronage in medieval Chinese Buddhist sculpture
Amy McNair
Donors of Longmen: faith, politics, and patronage in medieval Chinese Buddhist sculpture
Author
Amy McNairPublisher
University of Hawai'i PressEdition 1
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Title and Author
Donors of Longmen: faith, politics, and patronage in medieval Chinese Buddhist sculpture / Amy McNairPublication Details
هونولولو : University of Hawai'i Press، 2007مPhysical Description
x, 230 p.: ill.; 25 cm.Subject
Buddhist gods, in artBuddhist 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 -- China
Language
انگلیسیIncludes bibliographical references and )p. ]312[-522( index.
Contents
Emperor as Tathagata -- The mechanics of a karmic gift of sculpture -- The rhetoric of expenditure -- The politics of filial piety -- Cinasthana 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