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Archives of Asian Art (2021) 71 (2): 131–170.
Published: 01 October 2021
... are not specifically Buddhist, and may derive from ornament associated with furnishings and accoutrements for the aristocracy. A very similar border pattern embroidered on a silk fragment was found at the Mogao Caves, Dunhuang, in 1965. 18 The possible creation of Caves 9 and 10 by a designer at court seems...
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Archives of Asian Art (2018) 68 (2): 215–232.
Published: 01 October 2018
...Sonya S. Lee Abstract Kucha was one of the major political powers and cultural centers along the ancient Silk Road, home to a great number of Buddhist cave temples that have survived from the time of their creation sometime between the third century and the eighth. Although they are not as well...
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Archives of Asian Art (2021) 71 (1): 1–36.
Published: 01 April 2021
... based on an effort to visualize Buddhist soteriology in the early seventh century. © 2021 Asia Society 2021 Pure Land Landscape Lady Vaidehī Dunhuang Buddhist cave How are Buddhist paradises imagined through mountains and waters? Beginning in the sixth century, landscape...
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Archives of Asian Art (2011) 61 (1): 61–89.
Published: 01 April 2011
..., but it is far more widespread in India’s dred caves and monoliths exist at some forty-five sites, created lengthy and rich tradition of rock-cut monuments, rang- by Buddhists, Hindus, and Jains over a span of a thousand years. ing from ‘‘cave-temples’’ to entire monolithic temples And to those accustomed...
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Archives of Asian Art (2018) 68 (1): 87–109.
Published: 01 April 2018
... on the fundamental irrelevance of all media save the mind itself. Such a notion points to the need to develop a specifically Buddhist theory of images, media, and minds. Copyright © 2018 Asia Society 2018 Yuanjuedong repentance Zongmi medium Belting image anthropology Unlike the cave shrines...
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Archives of Asian Art (2022) 72 (2): 276–280.
Published: 01 October 2022
... had few opportunities to view sculpted work of this caliber. Buddhist icons dating to the early and later Tang dynasty were (and are) extremely rare. Only a handful of sites in China had hand-crafted, painted Tang pieces. Constructed of plant material and a wood core, the sculpture of Caves 45, 320...
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Published: 01 April 2019
Figure 18. Plan of the Bedsa Chaitya, first century bce . Note the channel connecting the interior cell to the cell on the verandah. From James Burgess, Report on the Buddhist Cave Temples and Their Inscriptions (Delhi: Trübner, 1876–79), pl. XI. More
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Archives of Asian Art (2019) 69 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Figure 18. Plan of the Bedsa Chaitya, first century bce . Note the channel connecting the interior cell to the cell on the verandah. From James Burgess, Report on the Buddhist Cave Temples and Their Inscriptions (Delhi: Trübner, 1876–79), pl. XI. ...
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Archives of Asian Art (2022) 72 (2): 255–272.
Published: 01 October 2022
... the status and importance as signifiers in overall meaning that Wang suggests they contributed, especially when, as in Mogao Cave 14, what she describes as Nepalese-derived Tibetan Esoteric Buddhist aspects (if that is what indeed they are) would be nearly invisible. Nevertheless, she interprets them...
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Archives of Asian Art (2024) 74 (2): 129–151.
Published: 01 October 2024
... prominently in the center of the cave chamber. When compared with the previously discussed parinirvana scene, in which Buddhist subjects were created in richly layered grounds gradually extending to the realm where worshippers stand, the bold lodging of the kneeling bodhisattva in the middle...
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Archives of Asian Art (2021) 71 (2): 171–190.
Published: 01 October 2021
... [ Common people's Buddhist beliefs in northern China during the fifth and sixth centuries: An investigation centered on inscriptions ]. Beijing : Zhongguo shehui kexue chubanshe , 1998 . Howard, Angela F. “ On ‘Art in the Dark’ and Meditation in Central Asian Buddhist Caves .” Eastern Buddhist...
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Archives of Asian Art (2008) 58 (1): 135–136.
Published: 01 April 2008
...) and the Problem of a Ming Painting Chinese Art and Archaeology (Mansell). Academy was the first work in the West to investigate In the 1980s Vanderstappen worked toward a the government institutions that had such a profound book on Chinese Buddhist sculpture, travelling to cave- impact on the history of Chinese...
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Archives of Asian Art (2014) 64 (1): 33–41.
Published: 01 April 2014
... models may have circulated within the Sata- the western Deccan. In the Buddhist caves at Karle, vahana region, feeding a fashion for Western things Junnar, and Pitalkhora, strategically located along the that is attested in many craft traditions and which trading routes connecting the coast...
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Archives of Asian Art (2016) 66 (1): 81–105.
Published: 01 April 2016
... for understanding the gaps between the deity's textual description and its visual representation. Copyright © Asia Society 2016 Thousand-armed Mañjuśrī Thousand-armed Avalokiteśvara Mañjuśrī Avalokiteśvara Mt. Wutai Dunhuang Mogao caves mural painting Buddhist painting Buddhist art esoteric...
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Archives of Asian Art (2006) 56 (1): 11–30.
Published: 01 April 2006
... about general site in a number of different aspects of patronage. First she patterns of Buddhist patronage and belief; but their very appears as the lay leader of the Buddhist charitable society comprehensiveness means that the individual patron is still that sponsored the construction of the cave...
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Archives of Asian Art (2022) 72 (2): 221–253.
Published: 01 October 2022
... are rendered in modeled clay, while the rest of their bodies were produced as a fresco. For a study of those works, see Y. Wang, “Relief Problem.” By the eight century, cave painters at Mogao, too, used painted representations of screens as the illusory support for Buddhist paintings or landscapes. They even...
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Archives of Asian Art (2007) 57 (1): 51–94.
Published: 01 April 2007
... is the large Sutra Repository Cave (no. limbed guardian figures flank the exterior of the cave 136) at Bei Shan.36 We do not know the specific social entrance (Figs. 5, 13). These four deities are not readily dynamics of these consortial works. Their sponsors identifiable in Buddhist scriptures associated...
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Archives of Asian Art (2001) 52 (1): 121–127.
Published: 01 April 2001
...; Buddhist Cave Painting Signed Yen Hui, vol. 26 (1972-1973), pp. 67-70; A Letter Sculpture of the Northern Qi Dynasty: Shaping a New Style, and Fan Painting by Ch'iu Ying, vol. 28 (1974-1975), PP- Formulating New Iconographies, vol. 49 (1996), pp. 6-25. '08-113...
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Archives of Asian Art (2005) 55 (1): 1–15.
Published: 01 April 2005
... vol. 23, no.s (May 1992), pp. 52-60, discusses in detail how the mura1 i 3. Kyu-won Kim," Kory Buddhist Painting," pp. 3 12-1 3 in Dunhuang Cave 172, illustrating the Meditation Surtra, conveys the 14. lt was first identified as a Korean work by Marjorie Williams...
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Archives of Asian Art (2006) 56 (1): 61–80.
Published: 01 April 2006
... & Baddharmadi figures within the cave primarily in conjunction with its 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 emptiness, in an effort to affiliate Kanjingsi with the Chan 9.13,addhamitra Buddhist sect. This study seeks to present Kanjingsi as an 18 10...