Tag: Northern Wei Dynasty
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The Nurturers and Self-Image Building of Ten Thousand Buddha Hall in Yixian County, Liaoning Province
Lin Jiao, Ruirao Ru DOI: 10.64212/ROGY8974 AbstractThis paper selects the Ten Thousand Buddhas Grottoes in Northeast China as the research object, and compares it with the Longmen Grottoes of the same period by taking the inscription of the statue as the breakthrough point. It is found that there are certain links and differences in the choice of…
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Feminization of Statues in Longmen Grottoes during the Northern Wei Dynasty and its Causes
During the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Longmen Grottoes in Luoyang were excavated, following the excavation of the Yungang Grottoes in Datong. When comparing the statues in the Longmen Grottoes and the Yungang Grottoes, the most prominent difference is that the statues in the Longmen Grottoes present different feminine features. First, the donor figures originally carved…