Dunhuang Mural Art and Spurious Scriptures - The Dunhuang Studies Doctoral Library

Author: Yin Guangming
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: The Dunhuang caves have left humanity a rich cultural heritage. The cave art is vast and profound, and the documentary materials are all-encompassing. They not only preserve a large number of spurious scriptures but also retain a wealth of images and related materials of spurious scriptures in the mural art. The author has organized the images related to spurious scriptures in the Dunhuang mural art, especially focusing on traditional culture, placing the images and related materials of spurious scriptures in the Dunhuang caves within the long river of Chinese history for a macroscopic examination. The author has conducted systematic and comprehensive research, allowing readers to see through the Dunhuang cave art the collision between Indian Buddhism and Chinese traditional culture, as well as different aspects of the sinicization and secularization of Buddhism. In terms of arrangement, the emphasis is on tracking the historical cultural process, starting from the actual historical conditions of different eras, striving to objectively reveal the true relationships between them. Through the examination and research of spurious scriptures and image materials in the Dunhuang caves, readers come to understand the important role that spurious scriptures and images play in the sinicization and secularization of Buddhism.