Donors of Longmen faith, politics, and patronage in medieval Chinese Buddhist sculpture /

Donors of Longmen faith, politics, and patronage in medieval Chinese Buddhist sculpture /

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Main Author: McNair, Amy
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c2007.
Subjects:
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 > China.
Electronic books.
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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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