Illuminating text and stunning photographs bring together the imagery, historical placement, and background of the eight surviving statues of the Lohans, the legendary disciples of the Buddha. These ceramic statues, discovered by pirates in a secluded shrine cave and brought to the Peking art market in 1913, are renderings of the Buddha's direct disciples, the first practitioners to experience the fruit of his path. This highly original text sheds light on meditation statues that have long remained in the shadow of antique arts terminology.
