Surviving Nirvana POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian

Surviving Nirvana POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / AsianThe Buddha's nirvana marks the end of the life of a great spiritual figure and the beginning of Buddhism as a world religion. Surviving Nirvana is the first book in the English language to examine how this historic moment was represented and received in the visual culture of China. It is also a study about a pictorial image that has been in use for over 1,500 years. Mining a selection of well documented and well preserved examples from the sixth to

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