Donors of Longmen [electronic resource] : faith, politics, and patronage in medieval Chinese Buddhist sculpture / Amy McNair.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c2007.Description: x, 230 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 730.951/18 22
LOC classification:
  • NB1912.B83 M43 2007eb
Online resources:
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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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.

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