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Chinese Wood Sculptures of the 11th to 13th cent - Images of Water-moon Guanyin in Northern Chinese Temples and Western Collections (Paperback)
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Chinese Wood Sculptures of the 11th to 13th cent - Images of Water-moon Guanyin in Northern Chinese Temples and Western Collections (Paperback)
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Chinese Buddhist wooden sculptures of Water-moon Guanyin, a
Bodhisattva sitting in a leisurely reclining pose on a rocky
throne, are housed in Western collections and are thus removed from
their original context(s). Not only are most of them of unknown
origin, but also do lack a precise date. Tracing their sources is
moreover difficult because of the scant information provided by art
dealers in previous periods. Thus, only preliminary investigations
into their stylistic development and technical features have been
made so far. Moreover, until recently none of the Chinese temples
that provided their original context, i.e. their
precise/exact/specific position within those temple compounds and
their respective place in the Buddhist pantheon, have been examined
at all. In her study, Petra H Roesch investigates these very
aspects, including questions about the religious position and
function of the sculptures of this special Bodhisattva. She also
looks at the technical construction, the collecting of Chinese
Buddhist sculptures in general and those sculptures made of wood in
particular. She uses a combination of stylistic, iconographical,
buddhological, as well as technical methodologies in her
investigation of the Water-moon Guanyin images and sheds light on
the Buddhist temples in Shanxi Province, the works of art they once
housed, and the religious practices of the eleventh to thirteenth
centuries connected with them.
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