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Donors of Longmen : faith, politics, and patronage in medieval Chinese Buddhist sculpture
- Title
- Donors of Longmen : faith, politics, and patronage in medieval Chinese Buddhist sculpture / Amy McNair.
- Author
- McNair, Amy.
- Publication
- Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c2007.
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- Description
- x, 230 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and (p. [213]-225) index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JQE 07-407
- ISBN
- 0824829948 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780824829940 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006024200
- OCLC
- 70823117
- Author
- McNair, Amy.
- Title
- Donors of Longmen : faith, politics, and patronage in medieval Chinese Buddhist sculpture / Amy McNair.
- Imprint
- Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c2007.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and (p. [213]-225) index.
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- Research Call Number
- JQE 07-407