CHIN 50 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Mahayana, Longmen Grottoes, Li Bai
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Tang arts and culture and the silk road. First slide: ceramic figure: woman on horseback. (check my phone for photos) It is a female figure on a horse, riding in a tang costume. This was excavated from tombs, and very realistic. We can learn a lot from these figures. Women are taking up more dynamic movements, such as riding horses, wearing foreign dresses, and playing polo (non-traditional). Sculpture of a camel, used to transport goods across deserts. Wall painting of central asian envoys to tang china. Buddha preaching the law 701-750 ce, painting on silk, british museum. Desert environment preserved the cave temples of dunhuang. Guiding bodhisattva, painting on silk, british museum, the bodhisattva is helping the other person get to heaven. Cave 85, detail of wall painting of musicians, late tang dynasty (848-907 ce), mogao grottoes, People playing the instrument pipao, which is an iranian instrument.
