Bulletin, Issues 55-57The Museum, 1983 - China |
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... represented all over Han China with serpent tails and human torsos , and in this sense can be called hybrid creatures . Michael Loewe has suggested that the serpent tail originally revealed the divine nature of the figure represented ...
... represented all over Han China with serpent tails and human torsos , and in this sense can be called hybrid creatures . Michael Loewe has suggested that the serpent tail originally revealed the divine nature of the figure represented ...
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... represented kneeling on lotuses . The secondary Buddhas placed in front of the main images in the lateral groups are ... represented standing , it soars unimpeded from feet to head with a sweeping thrust ( Plate 16 ) . When the image is ...
... represented kneeling on lotuses . The secondary Buddhas placed in front of the main images in the lateral groups are ... represented standing , it soars unimpeded from feet to head with a sweeping thrust ( Plate 16 ) . When the image is ...
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... represented a powerful link with the supernatural . It is not surprising , therefore , that a modified version of those headgears was used to adorn the Buddhist images . The crowns worn by the Bodhisattvas in the Sutra Repository at Ta ...
... represented a powerful link with the supernatural . It is not surprising , therefore , that a modified version of those headgears was used to adorn the Buddhist images . The crowns worn by the Bodhisattvas in the Sutra Repository at Ta ...
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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