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... images ' gazes meet unabashedly those of the onlooker . The features of the Buddhist images may actually represent Khitan facial traits . The hypothesis appears supported by the death masks found in Liao burials.2 The Khitans used to ...
... images ' gazes meet unabashedly those of the onlooker . The features of the Buddhist images may actually represent Khitan facial traits . The hypothesis appears supported by the death masks found in Liao burials.2 The Khitans used to ...
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... images adhere to a square block which was once attached to the surface of a building , a temple or a pagoda , and are represented standing on narrow ledges.45 These sculptures , unfortunately , are mutilated and very damaged . They all ...
... images adhere to a square block which was once attached to the surface of a building , a temple or a pagoda , and are represented standing on narrow ledges.45 These sculptures , unfortunately , are mutilated and very damaged . They all ...
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... images into a mythic landscape . " The reiteration of the basic image complex - stag or stag variant , predator , and antler transformed into tree throughout the Siberian and Far Eastern nomadic world strongly suggests that the ...
... images into a mythic landscape . " The reiteration of the basic image complex - stag or stag variant , predator , and antler transformed into tree throughout the Siberian and Far Eastern nomadic world strongly suggests that the ...
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animals antlers appear barrow beak-heads Bei Dao bird black-painted Bodhisattva body bronze Buddha Buddhist burial carved central century B.C. Ch'ien Liu Chavannes China Chinese Confucian crown cultural Dai Zhen dated decorative dragons Eastern Antiquities Emperor feline figure frontal Fu Xi fur-trimmings gold plaques griffon heads Hangchou headdress heavily stylized Hopei horse Hsiung-nu Hua-yen hybrid beast Ibid images imperial Inner Mongolia inscription Issyk Khitan Kuan-yin kurgan landscape Liao dynasty Liaoning literati Manchu Mongolia monk motif mountains mythic Neo-Confucian nomadic officials omens Pagoda Parinirvana pattern Pazaryk Photograph courtesy Plate poetry poets political portents predator Rect reign represented ribbons Round Ø Rudenko sculpture Scythian art Scytho-Siberian seal Sekino Shih Siberian Treasure silk Sitting lion soutache stone Sung symbolic Ta-t'ung Temple tiger Ting-hsien tomb tradition tree ts'ê Type Virginia Museum Wang Wu Shrines Wu Yüeh Wu-t'ai-shan Yin and Yang Zhu Xi