Caves of the thousand Buddhas. Chinese art from the silk route

by Roderick Whitfield, Anne Farrer

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First edition

New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1990 . First edition, 4to, pp. 208; over 150 color and 75 black-and-white illustrations; full tan cloth; fine in fine dust jacket. A catalog of 163 works. Nearly a thousand years ago, a magnificent collection of Buddhist paintings, textiles, and manuscripts was walled up in a cave at Dunhuang in western China. Although the cave was rediscovered around 1900, it wasn't until 1907 that the archaeologist Marcus Aurelius Stein

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