Regionalization of Chinese Buddhist Carving in the Fifth through Seventh Centuries: Localization of Practice in the Place and Face of the Buddha

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Populations of Early Medieval China: Developing Anthropological Approaches to Historical Archaeology in China" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Over the course of the last two decades there have been a number of hoards of Buddhist statues excavated in Northern China. Each of these hoards contains several hundred statues of varying forms and quality. This study examines both the form and the tool marks on the statues to assess the degree of localization present within the statues. In studying statues from several hoards, including the Longxing Si site in Shandong, the Wanfo Si site in Chengdu, and the Leshanni Si site in Xi’an, this study identifies the majority of the statues in each case as coming from multiple workshops within each region.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Populations of Early Medieval China: Developing Anthropological Approaches to Historical Archaeology in China   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 36088.0