Amy McNair

Donors of Longmen: Faith, Politics, and Patronage in Medieval Chinese Buddhist Sculpture

University of Hawai'i Press, 2007. Hardcover. Fine hardcover in fine dust jacket. Quite scarce. Hardcover. 230 pages, with bibliography and index. Illustrated with photographs. The first work in a Western language to re-create the history of the Longmen Grottoes, one of China's great stone sculpture treasure houses. The site consists of thousands of ancoent cave chapels and shrines containing Buddhist icons of all sizes that were carved into the towering limestone cliffs from the fifth to the eighth centuries. Fine / fine. Item #E26705
ISBN: 9780824829940

Price: $175.00