Notes d'iconographie bouddhique — des Vidyārāja et Vajradhara de Touen-houang
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19425713 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michel Soymié (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1987 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 9-26 |
| Publication date | 1987-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cahiers d Extrême-Asie (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0766-1177 • E-ISSN: 2117-6272 |
| Publisher | PERSEE Program (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3406/asie.1987.890 |
| OpenAlex | W2089781278 |
| Language | FR |
| Citations received | 1 |
Paintings from Tun-huang represent Kuan-yin, especially the Kuan-yin with thousand arms and thousand eyes, surrounded by a multitude of lesser gods. The lower corners are often occupied by two terrifying deities of the vidyārāja type. Several such paintings kept at the Musée Guimet and the British Museum bear inscriptions giving these two deities rather obscure names of vajra-bearers. Some of these names, probably of a later date, come from a list of "Eight Great Vajra", a group of deities well known in the tenth century because they are depicted in the Diamond Sutra. However, the icono graphical details do not tally with these scriptural identifications
Art · Art history · Multitude · Painting · Chinese history and philosophy · Eurasian Exchange Networks · Indian and Buddhist Studies · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,04 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 1999 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |