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ISBN 9780295986852

Uitgever University of Washington Press

Taal Engels

Categorie overig diverse

Meer info 2007, 536pp, paperback, mooi exemplaar

Extra informatie "The Lotus Sutra" has been a revered Buddhist scripture in East Asia since its translation in the third century. Surviving examples in murals painted on cave walls or carved in relief on Buddhist monuments depict celestial journeys, bodily metamorphoses, cycles of rebirth, and the achievement of nirvana. This book explores this visual world. The book examines murals in cave shrines at Binglingsi and Dunhuang in northwestern China and relief sculptures in the grottoes of Yungang in Shanxi, on stelae from Sichuan, and on the Dragon-and-Tiger pagoda in Shandong, among other sites. By tracing formal impulses in medieval Chinese picture-making, such as topographic mapping and pictorial illusionism, the author pieces together a wide range of visual evidence and textual sources to reconstruct the medieval Chinese cognitive style and mental world.