The Uighur Ritual Complex in Beiting

Steinhardt, Nancy Shatzman

作者

Steinhardt, Nancy Shatzman

出處題名

Orientations

卷期

v.30 n.4

出版日期

1999.04

頁次

28 - 37

資料類型

期刊論文=Journal Article

使用語言

英文=English

附註項

720

關鍵詞

Buddhist Temples in China; Buddhist Mural Painting and Decoration in China; Chinese Art in Xinjiang, Uygur;Steinhardt, Nancy Shatzman;

摘要

The writer discusses the Uighur Ritual Complex in Beiting，China. Beiting，a walled garrison town that was a protectorate of the Tang dynasty (618-906)，was captured by a branch of the Uighurs in 840 together with Gaochang，another Tang protectorate; Gaochang became the Uighur capital known as Qoco and Beiting an auxiliary capital of the Qoco-Uighurs. Structural and pictorial evidence connects the two fundamental buildings at Beiting--the stupa and the funerary temple complex--to each other as well as to some of the most fundamental Buddhist architectural spaces in every part of the Asian continent influenced by Buddhism in its early history. Pictorial evidence from painting detail associates the monument more specifically with the period of Uighur supremacy in Qoco，which is logical since the two sites probably shared painters. Thus, it appears that this structure is the monument，tomb，and funerary temple of an Uighur prince，maybe one who ruled from Beiting or one more closely related to the nearby walled city of Qoco.

ISSN

00305448

研究類別

歷史

研究地點

新彊

點閱次數

705

建檔日期

2001.01.29