| title | authors | external_url | source_url | drive_links | course | tags | year | month | journal | volume | number | pages | openalexid | ||
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Colossal Buddha Statues along the Silk Road |
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bart |
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2019 |
dec |
Acta Via Serica |
4 |
2 |
1--27 |
W3160178319 |
Beginning in the northwestern region of India, and spreading through Central Asia and the rest of Asia along the Silk Road, the making of colossal Buddha statues has been a major theme in Buddhist art. The colossal Buddha statues predominantly feature Śākyamuni (the Historical Buddha), Maitreya (the Future Buddha), and Vairocana (the Transcendant Buddha), and they were fashioned out of religious devotion and frequently in conjunction with notions of Buddhist kingship.