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Protecting the Dharma through Calligraphy in Tang China - A Study of the Ji Wang shengjiao xu The Preface to the Buddhist Scriptures Engraved on Stone in Wang Xizhi's Collated Characters (Hardcover)
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Protecting the Dharma through Calligraphy in Tang China - A Study of the Ji Wang shengjiao xu The Preface to the Buddhist Scriptures Engraved on Stone in Wang Xizhi's Collated Characters (Hardcover)
Series: Monumenta Serica Monograph Series
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This is a study of the earliest and finest collated inscription in
the history of Chinese calligraphy, the Ji Wang shengjiao xu
(Preface to the Sacred Teaching Scriptures Translated by Xuanzang
in Wang Xizhi's Collated Characters), which was erected on January
1, 673. The stele records the two texts written by the Tang
emperors Taizong (599-649) and Gaozong (628-683) in honor of the
monk Xuanzang (d. 664) and the Buddhist scripture Xin jing (Heart
Sutra), collated in the semi-cursive characters of the great master
of Chinese calligraphy, Wang Xizhi (303-361). It is thus a Buddhist
inscription that combines Buddhist authority, political power, and
artistic charm in one single monument. The present book
reconstructs the multifaceted context in which the stele was
devised, aiming at highlighting the specific role calligraphy
played in the propagation and protection of Buddhism in medieval
China.
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