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Another Buddhist deity, named Shukongoshin, one of the wrath-filled protector deities of Buddhist temples in Japan, is also an interesting case of transmission of the image of the famous Greek god Herakles to the Far-East along the Silk Road. Herakles was used in Greco-Buddhist art to represent Vajrapani, the protector of the Buddha, and his ...
Blue-eyed Central Asian monk teaching East-Asian monk. A fresco from the Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves, dated to the 9th century; although Albert von Le Coq (1913) assumed the blue-eyed, red-haired monk was a Tocharian, [2] modern scholarship has identified similar Caucasian figures of the same cave temple (No. 9) as ethnic Sogdians, [3] an Eastern Iranian people who inhabited Turfan as an ...
In 2009, the site was listed on the New York State Register and National Register of Historic Places. A writer in the New York Times referred to the museum's founder under the name Jacqueline Klauber, noting that she used Marchais as her professional name. [4] Office table. Jacques Marchais Coblentz was born in 1887 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
In 639 AD, the Tang Dynasty reached its peak, and the Silk Road was restored to prosperity during this period. Dunhuang, the site of the Western Paradise Illustration, became a transit station connecting China and the Western regions. At this time, a political rebellion occurred in Gaochang, a country on the Silk Road. In order to maintain the ...
In the course of this northward spread, numerous extensive Buddhist temple complexes (Dunhuang, Kuqa, Turfan, and others) emerged along the Silk Road and the basins of the Yellow River and Yangtze River between the 4th and 9th centuries (Northern Wei Dynasty, Sui Dynasty, and Tang Dynasty), emancipating themselves from their Indian models. [32]
Whitfield, Roderick and Farrer, Anne, Caves of the Thousand Buddhas: Chinese Art from the Silk Route (1990), British Museum Publications, ISBN 0-7141-1447-2; Whitfield, Roderick, Susan Whitfield, and Neville Agnew. "Cave Temples of Mogao: Art and History on the Silk Road" (2000). Los Angeles: The Getty Conservation Institute. ISBN 0-89236-585-4
Richard Foltz, Religions of the Silk Road 2nd edition (Palgrave Macmilla, 2010) ISBN 978-0-230-62125-1; Harle, J.C., The Art and Architecture of the Indian Subcontinent, 2nd edn. 1994, Yale University Press Pelican History of Art, ISBN 0300062176; Sir John Marshall, The Buddhist art of Gandhara, 1960, ISBN 81-215-0967-X
Zen Mountain Monastery (or, Doshinji, meaning Temple of the Way of Reality) is a Zen Buddhist monastery and training center on a 220-acre (0.89 km 2) [4] forested property in the Catskill Mountains in Mount Tremper, New York. It was founded in 1980 by John Daido Loori originally as the Zen Arts Center.