Chinese Steles - Pre-Buddhist and Buddhist Use of a Symbolic Form Wong Dorothy C.Pevná vazba
Chinese Steles - Pre-Buddhist and Buddhist Use of a Symbolic Form Wong Dorothy C.Pevná vazba Buddhist steles represent an important subset of early Chinese Buddhist art that flourished during the…
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Chinese Steles - Pre-Buddhist and Buddhist Use of a Symbolic Form Wong Dorothy C.Pevná vazba
Buddhist steles represent an important subset of early Chinese Buddhist art that flourished during the Northern and Southern Dynasties period (386-581). Their brilliant imagery has long captivated scholars, yet until now the Buddhist stele as a unique art form has received little scholarly attention. More than two hundred Chinese Buddhist steles are known to have survived.
She traces the ancient roots of the Chinese stele tradition and investigates the process by which Chinese steles were adapted for Buddhist use. Dorothy Wong rectifies that insufficiency by providing in this well-illustrated volume the first comprehensive investigation of this group of Buddhist monuments. She arranges the known corpus of Buddhist steles into broad chronological and regional groupings and analyzes not only their form and content but also the nexus of complex issues surrounding this art form--from