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McNair, Amy.

Donors of Longmen faith, politics, and patronage in medieval Chinese Buddhist sculpture / [electronic resource] : Amy McNair. - Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c2007. - x, 230 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and (p. [213]-225) index.

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.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
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Subjects--Topical Terms:
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.

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Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: NB1912.B83 / M43 2007eb

Dewey Class. No.: 730.951/18