TY  - BOOK
AU  - McNair,Amy
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Donors of Longmen: faith, politics, and patronage in medieval Chinese Buddhist sculpture 
AV  - NB1912.B83 M43 2007eb
U1  - 730.951/18 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Honolulu
PB  - University of Hawai'i Press
KW  - Buddhist gods in art
KW  - Buddhist sculpture
KW  - China
KW  - Longmen Caves
KW  - Sculpture, Chinese
KW  - Three kingdoms-Sui dynasty, 220-618
KW  - Tang-Five dynasties, 618-960
KW  - Buddhist art and symbolism
KW  - Art patronage
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and (p. [213]-225) index; Emperor as Tath�agata -- The mechanics of a karmic gift of sculpture -- The rhetoric of expenditure -- The politics of filial piety -- C�inasth�ana 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10386647
ER  -