Early Buddhist Art Of China And Central Asia Volume 3 The Western Chin In Kansu In The Sixteen Kingdoms Period And Interrelationships With The Buddhist Art Of Gandhra Martin Rhie by Martin Rhie, Marylin 9789004190191, 9004190198 instant download after payment.

This book, third in a series on the early Buddhist art of China and Central Asia, centers on Buddhist art from the Western Ch in (385-431 A.D.) in eastern Kansu (northwest China), primarily from the cave temples of Ping-ling ssu and Mai-chi shan. A detailed chronological and iconographic study of sculptures and wall paintings in Cave 169 at Ping-ling ssu particularly yields a chronological framework for unlocking the difficult issues of dating early fifth century Chinese Buddhist art, and offers some new insights into textual sources in the Lotus, Hua-yen and Amitabha sutras. Further, this study introduces the iconographpy of the five Buddhas and its relation to the art of Gandhara and the famous five colossal Tan-yao caves at Yun-kang. Bookseller Inventory