From Earth to Enlightenment: Materiality, Technology and Cultural Transmission of Terracruda Sculpture Across Buddhist Asia

edited by
• Mònica López-Prat - National Research Council - email
• Emma Cantisani - National Research Council - email
• Susan Bean - email

Keywords Buddhist art • X-radiography • Polychromy • Fibers • Tangut • textual instruction • Cosmetic practice • Silk Roads • Traditional knowledge • Mogao • Archaeology • Khara-khoto • ritual • Edzina • Langdon Warner • Buddhism • Beauty • XRF • Micro-CT • Terracruda • technique • Dunhuang • Mogaoku • SEM-EDS • Material culture • Pigments • Ritual deposits • Ornamentation • Bodily appearance • Sacred image-making • Conservation • Air-dried • Terra cruda • air-dried clay, nísù 泥塑, conservation, traditional • Clay • Vimānārcanakalpa • Sculpture

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/979-12-5742-112-0 | e-ISBN 979-12-5742-112-0 | Published Forthcoming | Language en

Funding European Union · Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships · Traditional Knowledge for the Conservation of the Silk Roads Monumental Terracruda Sculptures (TANTRiC) · Grant 101105953

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