Chinese Steles
Pre-Buddhist and Buddhist Use of a Symbolic Form
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Word Count
56,500 words, Guess
Page Count
226 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL8161820M
- ISBN-139780824827830
- ISBN-10082482783X
- OCLC Control Number54758597
- Library of Congress Control Number2004005998
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- Goodreads2175909
- LibraryThing4547492
Classifications
- LCCDS719.W65 2004
Description
"Buddhist steles represent an important subset of early Chinese Buddhist art that flourished during the Northern and Southern Dynasties period (386-581). More than two hundred Chinese Buddhist steles are known to have survived. Their brilliant imagery has long captivated scholars, yet until now the Buddhist stele as a unique art form has received little scholarly attention. Dorothy Wong rectifies that insufficiency by providing in this well-illustrated volume the first comprehensive investigation of this group of Buddhist monuments." "In her analysis of Buddhism's dialogue with native traditions, Wong demonstrates how the Chinese artistic idiom planted the seeds for major achievements in figural and landscape arts in the ensuing Sui and Tang periods."--BOOK JACKET.
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