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Mandalas in the Making - The Visual Culture of Esoteric Buddhism at Dunhuang (Hardcover)
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Mandalas in the Making - The Visual Culture of Esoteric Buddhism at Dunhuang (Hardcover)
Series: Sinica Leidensia, 139
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The first scholarly monograph on Buddhist mandalas in China, this
book examines the Mandala of Eight Great Bodhisattvas. This
iconographic template, in which a central Buddha is flanked by
eight attendants, flourished during the Tibetan (786-848) and
post-Tibetan Guiyijun (848-1036) periods at Dunhuang. A rare motif
that appears in only four cave shrines at the Mogao and Yulin
sites, the mandala bore associations with political authority and
received patronage from local rulers. Attending to the historical
and cultural contexts surrounding this iconography, this book
demonstrates that transcultural communication over the Silk Routes
during this period, and the religious dialogue between the Chinese
and Tibetan communities, were defining characteristics of the
visual language of Buddhist mandalas at Dunhuang.
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