Visualizing Dunhuang: Seeing, Studying, and Conserving the Caves

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A beautifully illustrated study of the caves at Dunhuang, exploring how this important Buddhist site has been visualized from its creation to today Situated at the crossroads of the northern and southern routes of the ancient silk routes in western China, Dunhuang is one of the richest Buddhist sites in the world, with more than 500 richly decor

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"[Visualizing Dunhuang] is a monumental contribution that furthers our understanding of significant developments taking place in early Buddhist doctrine, art, and architecture, as seen through the Loss lenses."---Julie Hirsch, Tricycle Magazine
"Its big, its heavy, and its beautiful. Dora Ching. . .has created a book that will surely become the volume to have if you are interested in Buddhist art from China or the history of photography. . . . The photographs of the Los beautifully complement the excellent essays in the book, and through them readers can enter into an almost magical world with some of the best tour-guides to accompany them."---John Butler, Asian Review of Books

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Dora C. Y. Ching is associate director of the P. Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art at Princeton University.