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Shaping the Lotus Sutra: Buddhist Visual Culture in Medieval China
Shaping the Lotus Sutra Buddhist Visual Culture in Medieval China
Author: Eugene Y. Wang
The Lotus Sutra has been the most widely read and most revered Buddhist scripture in East Asia since the third century. The miracles and parables in the "king of sutras" inspired a variety of images in China, in particular the sweeping compositions known as transformation tableaux that developed between the seventh and ninth centuries. Surviving...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780295986852
ISBN-10: 0295986859
Publication Date: 2/15/2007
Pages: 536
Edition: New Ed
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Publisher: University of Washington Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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