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Authentic replicas: Buddhist art in medieval China

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Field name	Details
ISBN	082486705X (hbk.)
ISBN	9780824867058 (hbk.)
Author	Shen, Hsueh-man
Title	Authentic replicas : Buddhist art in medieval China / Hsueh-man Shen
Publisher	Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2019
Physical desc.	ix, 334 pages ; illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm.
Bibliography etc.	Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-316) and index.
Contents	Introduction -- Part 1: Reproducing the text. Establishing textual authority in a print culture -- Accruing merit in a manuscript culture -- Part 2: Replicating the image. Multiple ways to multiply Buddhist images -- Replication and the transmission of Buddhist iconography -- Replicating the Buddha's true appearance -- Part 3: Multiplying the relics. Manifesting the Buddha body in reliquaries -- Reenacting the devotional act of relic burial -- Concluding remarks.
Subject	Buddhism and art -- China -- History -- To 1500
	Buddhist art and symbolism -- China -- History -- To 1500
	Art, Medieval -- China -- Themes, motives

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