Constructed over a millennium from the fourth to fourteenth
centuries CE near Dunhuang, an ancient border town along the Silk
Road in northwest China, the Mogao Caves comprise the largest, most
continuously created, and best-preserved treasure trove of Buddhist
art in the world. Previous overviews of the art of Dunhuang have
traced the caves' unilinear history. This book examines the caves
from the perspective of space, treating them as physical and
historical sites that can be approached, entered, and understood
sensually. It prioritizes the actual experiences of the people of
the past who built and used the caves. Five spatial contexts
provide rich material for analysis: Dunhuang as a multicultural
historic place; the Mogao Cave complex as an evolving entity; the
interior space of caves; interaction of the visual program with
architectural space; and pictorial space within wall paintings that
draws viewers into an otherworldly time. With its novel approach to
this repository of religious art, Spatial Dunhuang will be a
must-read for anyone interested in Buddhist art and for visitors to
Dunhuang.
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