Loss of Overseas Chinese Buddhist Sculptures

Author: Wu Xiaoding
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Publish Date: 2001-07-01
Features: This book primarily introduces Chinese Buddhist sculptures collected by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. It discusses the origin, development, and the process of absorption, integration, and eventual Sinicization of Buddhist sculpture art after it was introduced to China. It also covers the issue of stolen and lost Chinese Buddhist sculptures.