Early Buddhist Art of China and Central Asia, Volume 1 Later Han, Three Kingdoms and Western Chin in China and Bactria to Shan-shan in Central Asia
Biographical note
Marylin M. Rhie, Ph.D. (1970) in Chinese Buddhist Art History, University of Chicago, is Jessie Wells Post Professor of Art at Smith College. She has written extensively on the Buddhist art of Asia, including Wisdom and Compassion, the Sacred Art of Tibet (with R. Thurman).
Readership
Those interested in Buddhist art and the art, religion and history of China, Central Asia, the Silk Road, and Asia in general.
Reviews
'...the most in-depth investigation of early Chinese and Central Asian Buddhist art undertaken in recent decades. They exemplify the purpose and mission of the Handbuch der Orientalistik series.'
Nancy Shatzman-Steinhardt.
'The wide scope of topics, sites, and items discussed […], the expert knowledge of the author and the lucid style, in which Rhie presents the results of her studies, make this volume of the HdO a most welcome [..] study, a reference tool, and a comprehensive collection of illustrations that will be indispensable for readers interested in the history of Central Asian and Chinese Buddhism during the 1st to 4th c. A.D.'
Gerd Wädow, Monumenta Serica, 1999.
'…a work certain to become an important benchmark in the study of the complex relationship between Buddhist art in Central Asia an in China in the early centuries of the Christian era. Although not all the conclusions reached and the artistic relations observed will always be shared by other scholars, the impressive research carried out on this material is sure to constitute a starting point for all future investigations in this field.'
Nicoletta Celli, Central Asiatic Journal, 2002.
Nancy Shatzman-Steinhardt.
'The wide scope of topics, sites, and items discussed […], the expert knowledge of the author and the lucid style, in which Rhie presents the results of her studies, make this volume of the HdO a most welcome [..] study, a reference tool, and a comprehensive collection of illustrations that will be indispensable for readers interested in the history of Central Asian and Chinese Buddhism during the 1st to 4th c. A.D.'
Gerd Wädow, Monumenta Serica, 1999.
'…a work certain to become an important benchmark in the study of the complex relationship between Buddhist art in Central Asia an in China in the early centuries of the Christian era. Although not all the conclusions reached and the artistic relations observed will always be shared by other scholars, the impressive research carried out on this material is sure to constitute a starting point for all future investigations in this field.'
Nicoletta Celli, Central Asiatic Journal, 2002.
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