Materialized Wishes: Long Banner Paintings from the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang
This paper explores the religious function and meaning of long banner paintings from Cave 17 of the Mogao Caves in Dunhuang, in conjunction with material culture in Northwestern China in the ninth and tenth centuries CE. The so-called forty-nine-chi banners have peculiar traits such as extremely lon...
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| Language: | English |
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MDPI
2023
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Religions
Year: 2023, Volume: 14, Issue: 1 |
| Further subjects: | B
Mogao Caves
B long banner B forty-nine-chi banner B Library Cave B votive offering B salvation ritual B healing ritual B Cave 17 B Dunhuang |
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