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The Transmission of the Four-Pointed Cape Motif: From Gandhāra to the East and West |
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Author |
LI, Yi-cong (著)=李怡淙 (au.)
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Source |
Hualin International Journal of Buddhist Studies
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Volume | v.5 n.1 Special Issue: Text and Image & Buddhist Biography |
Date | 2022.05 |
Pages | 56 - 86 |
Publisher | Cambria Press |
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http://www.cambriapress.com/
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Location | New York, US [紐約州, 美國] |
Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
Language | 英文=English |
Note | Yicong Li 李怡淙 is currently a first‐year D.Phil. student in Archaeology at the University of Oxford and a member of Wolfson College. Her research focuses on the material culture of ancient Gandhāra, especially the diffusion of Gandhāran royal imagery. Before starting her D.Phil., Yicong obtained her M.Phil. and B.A. in Art History from Tsinghua University. She was awarded scholarships from The Karun Thakar Fund (in collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum) in 2021 and The China Oxford Scholarship Fund in 2022. |
Keyword | four-pointed cape; bejewelled Buddha; Gandhāran art; Buddhist iconography |
Abstract | This article uses an art-historical perspective to examine the spatiotemporal transmission and stylistic evolution of the four-pointed cape costume in Buddhist images from Northwest India. This costume first appeared between the second century and the fourth century CE on certain Gandhāran sculptures of Kushan donors, and then, by the fifth century CE, in the bejewelled Buddha imagery, denoting the figures’ dominating power. In the postGandhāran period between the sixth century and the eighth century CE, bejewelled Buddha images from north-eastern Afghanistan, northern Pakistan, and Kashmir adopted modified and stylised cape motifs that were influenced by Gandhāran, Iranian, and indigenous Indian traditions to different extents. Meanwhile, the stylised capes spread to Central Asia, Byzantium, and China, reflecting the influence of the late Buddhist art of Northwest India on the surrounding regions. |
Table of contents | Abstract 56 Introduction 57 Early Specimens from Ancient Gandhāra 59 Stylistic Characteristics of Post-Gandhāran Specimens 65 Spreading to the East and West 75 Conclusion 82 Bibliography 83 |
ISSN | 25762923 (P); 25762931 (E) |
DOI | https://dx.doi.org/10.15239/hijbs.05.01.02 |
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Created date | 2023.08.16 |
Modified date | 2023.08.16 |
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