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Early Buddhist Art of China and Central Asia Volume Two: The Eastern Chin and Sixteen Kingdoms Period in China and Tumshuk, Kucha and Karashahr in Central Asia (in 2 Volumes: Text and Plates)
Rhie, Marylin Martin
6.25 x 9.25", 900 pp., 550 illustrations, some in color, hardcover, Leiden, 2002. (o.p.; fine) **Due to its size and weight, the shipping cost is $9.95(USA address) and $35.00 (non-USA address)
Volume Two of Marylin Rhie's widely acclaimed, multi-volume work presents a comprehensive, scholarly and detailed study of the Buddhist art of China and Central Asia from 316 to 439 AD, during the formative, yet little understood early stages of Buddhism in the Eastern Chin and Sixteen Kingdoms Period. Using numerous texts translated from the Chinese, some for the first time in English, together with previous studies of the region, mainly by Chinese and European scholars, and systematic comparative stylistic and technical analyses of hundreds of individual remains, the chronology and sources of the art of South and North China (other than Kansu, which will be presented in the next volume) and of the major sites of Tumshuk, Kucha and Karashahr on the Northern Silk Route in Eastern Central Asia are reassessed and more clearly defined, often with surprising results.
Furthermore, by incorporating religious and historical materials, this work contributes to understanding particular regional characteristics of the art and its local circumstances and conditions. This volume, like the preceding one, not only becomes a reference, but also offers new insights and theories concerning specific images, sites, long standing problems and issues of iconography, dating, sources and inter-regional relationships from India to China that shed light on the period and open up new vistas for the study of the Buddhist art of this difficult and complex yet amazingly vital early phase in the transmission of Buddhism to Central Asia and China.
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Price $496.00
Item # 20113
ISBN 9004114998
Brill Academic Publishers
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