TY - BOOK AU - McNair,Amy ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - Donors of Longmen: faith, politics, and patronage in medieval Chinese Buddhist sculpture AV - NB1912.B83 M43 2007 U1 - 730.951/18 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Honolulu PB - University of Hawai'i Press KW - Buddhist gods in art KW - Buddhist sculpture KW - China KW - Longmen Caves KW - Sculpture, Chinese KW - Three kingdoms-Sui dynasty, 220-618 KW - Tang-Five dynasties, 618-960 KW - Buddhist art and symbolism KW - Art patronage KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and (p. [213]-225) index; Emperor as Tath�agata -- The mechanics of a karmic gift of sculpture -- The rhetoric of expenditure -- The politics of filial piety -- C�inasth�ana preserves the dharma -- Rouge and powder money -- The satellite grottoes -- Salvation for one -- Epilogue : the later life of the site -- Appendix : Chinese texts of Longmen inscriptions; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/nird-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3413251 ER -