Mount Wutai - Visions of a Sacred Buddhist Mountain

The northern Chinese mountain range of Mount Wutai has been a preeminent site of international pilgrimage for over a millennium. Home to more than one hundred temples, the entire range is considered a Buddhist paradise on earth, and has received visitors ranging from emperors to monastic and lay devotees. Mount Wutai explores how Qing Buddhist rule

About the author

Wen-Shing Chou is assistant professor of art history at Hunter College, City University of New York.

Summary

The northern Chinese mountain range of Mount Wutai has been a preeminent site of international pilgrimage for over a millennium. Home to more than one hundred temples, the entire range is considered a Buddhist paradise on earth, and has received visitors ranging from emperors to monastic and lay devotees. Mount Wutai explores how Qing Buddhist rule

Additional text

"richly detailed and beautifully illustrated. . . . a major contribution to the growing corpus of studies on Wutai shan."---Natalie Köhle, Journal of Chinese Religions

Product details

• Authors: Wen-Shing Chou
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9780691178646
• ISBN: 978-0-691-17864-6
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Plastic arts; China, ART / History / General, Mountains, RELIGION / Buddhism / General, ART / Asian / General, ART / Asian / Chinese, Buddhism, History of Art, East Asia, Far East, Worship, rites, ceremonies and rituals, Nature in art, Oriental art, Buddhist Worship, Rites & Ceremonies, Mountains and uplands