Foreword David Park, Kuenga Wangmo and Sharon Cather
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List of contributors
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Introduction David Park
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Presenting the Buddha: Images, conventions, and significance in early Indian Buddhism Juhyung Rhi
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1
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Buddha's stupa and image: in search of the ultimate icon Tadeusz Skorupski
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19
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Rhetoric of reward, ideologies of inducement: why produce Buddhist 'art' Peter Skilling
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27
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Art in the dark: the ritual context of Buddhist caves in western China Robert Sharf
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38
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Painted and architectural ornamentation of the temples of Pagan: more than mere iconography and decoration Claudine Bautze-Picron
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66
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The problem of authenticity: a historical geography of Buddhist art in eighteenth-century China Patricia Berger
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26
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The oracle and temple of Lamochok: aspects of history and iconography Matthew T. Kapstein
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96
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The wailing arhats: Buddhism, photography and resistance in modern China Francesca Tarocco
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113
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Conserving the Buddhist wall paintings of Bamiyan in Afghanistan: practical issues and dilemmas Yoko Taniguchi
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124
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Buddhist wall paintings in context: the foundation for future scholarship Susan Whitfield
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140
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Dunhuang Grotto Buddhist art and its preventive conservation Wang Xudong
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153
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Applying the China Principles: The Getty Conservation Institute's work at Dunhuang and Chengde in China Long Wong, Martha Demas and Neville Agnew
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170
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Conservation and research in Buddhist art from an art-historical perspective Christian Luczanits
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187
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Sumda Chun and other early Buddhist wall paintings in Ladakh: practical and ethical conservation issues from failing structures to obscuring surface layers Charlotte Martin de Fonjaudran, Sreekumar menon and Maninder Singh Gill
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Relationship of conservation to the functions of monuments, with reference to Buddhism in Bhutan Dorjee Tsering
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Buddhist wall paintings of Bhutan: material traditions and conservation realities Lisa Shekede and Stephen Rickerby
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A new image of the Mahasiddha Virupa: a major addition to the corpus of early fifteenth-century bronzes John Clarke
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241
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The Buddha and his brothers: expressions of power, place and community by the network of Mahamuni images Pyi Phyo Kyaw and Kate Crosby
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Buddhist strategies of keeping its sacred images and shrines alive: the example of the Svayambhu caitya of Kathmandu Alexander von Rospatt
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275
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Materiality of devotion: Tibetan Buddhist shrines of the western Himalaya Melissa R. Kerin
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286
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The pilgrimage to Bangajang: a devotional circuit in the eastern Himalayas T. Richard Blurton
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297
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Sacred art: on the path to wisdom and compassion Matthieu Ricard
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315
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Re-inscribing Mount Myohyang: from Pohyon Temple to the International Friendship Exhibition Marsha Haufler
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332
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Why collect Tibetan art? Alice S. Kandell
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Buddhist art in an Ando building Francesca Consagra
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Revisiting The Third Mind: the Buddhist imaginary in modern American art Alexandra Munroe
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Sculptures of Mindfulness Antony Gormley
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