Early Buddhist Art of China and Central Asia: The Western Ch'in in Kansu in the Sixteen Kingdoms Period and Inter-Relationships With the Buddhist Art ... Oriental Studies/Handbuch Der Orientalistik) - Hardcover

Rhie, Marylin M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004184007 ISBN 13: 9789004184008

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 2010

Synopsis

This book, third in a series on the early Buddhist art of China and Central Asia, centers on Buddhist art from the Western Ch'in (385-431 A.D.) in eastern Kansu (northwest China), primarily from the cave temples of Ping-ling ssu and Mai-chi shan. A detailed chronological and iconographic study of sculptures and wall paintings in Cave 169 at Ping-ling ssu particularly yields a chronological framework for unlocking the difficult issues of dating early fifth century Chinese Buddhist art, and offers some new insights into textual sources in the Lotus, Hua-yen and Amitabha sutras. Further, this study introduces the iconographpy of the five Buddhas and its relation to the art of Gandhara and the famous five colossal T'an-yao caves at Yün-kang.

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About the Author

Marylin M. Rhie, Ph.D. (1970) in Chinese Buddhist art, University of Chicago, is Jessie Wells Post Professor of Art at Smith College. She has published extensively on Buddhist art, including Vols. I (1999) and II (2002) of this series (Brill).

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 9004184007
• ISBN 13: 9789004184008
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 544