Kizil on the Silk Road Crossroads of Commerce and Meeting of Minds

by Ghose, Rajeshwari

• ISBN13: 9788185026855
• ISBN10: 8185026858
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-09-16
• Publisher: Marg Pubns

Summary

"With the current focus on globalization has come a revival of interest in the Silk Road, that fabled artery of globalization of the 1st millennium, which linked the great civilizations of China and India, through the vast terrains of Central Asia, and then meandered along to Persia, parts of the Roman Empire, and thence to Europe. This book focuses on the startlingly beautiful Buddhist Cave complex of Kizil, an important conduit in the transmission of Buddhist art and thought along the Silk Road from India to China."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 6
Kizil on the Silk Road	p. 8
The Geography of Transmission: The "Jibin" Route and the Propagation of Buddhism in China	p. 24
Towards a More Reliable Chronology for the Site of Kizil	p. 32
The Kizil Caves: Date, Art, and Iconography	p. 40
Maitreya in Literature and in the Art of Xinjiang	p. 66
The Ceiling Murals of Kizil as a Symbol of the Buddhist Universe	p. 84
In Quest of Literary Sources for the Narrative Paintings of Kizil Caves	p. 94
Legendary, Historical, and Canonical Personae in the Murals of Kizil	p. 106
The Great Controversy: Vairochana in a Predominantly Hinayana Context	p. 116
A Study of the Murals in Cave 114	p. 128
Index	p. 138
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