Donors of Longmen: Faith, Politics, and Patronage in Medieval Chinese Buddhist Sculpture 9780824862251

Donors of Longmen is the first work in a Western language to re-create the history of the Longmen Grottoes, one of China

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English Pages 232 [248] Year 2006

Table of contents :
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
One. Emperor as Tathāgata
Two. The Mechanics of a Karmic Gift of Sculpture
Three. The Rhetoric of Expenditure
Four. The Politics of Filial Piety
Five. Cīnasthāna Preserves the Dharma
Six. Rouge and Powder Money
Seven. The Satellite Grottoes
Eight. Salvation for One
Epilogue: The Later Life of the Site
Appendix: Chinese Texts of Longmen Inscriptions
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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