Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11861/10822
Title: Secrets of the fallen pagoda: The famen temple and Tang Court culture
Authors: Wang, Eugene Y. 
Sen, Tansen 
Shen, Chong Wang 
Cheong, Conan 
Shuyi, Kan 
Prof. CHAN Lai-Pik Libby 
Carvalho, Pedro Moura 
Issue Date: 2014
Publisher: Singapore: Asian Civilisations Museum
Source: Wang, E. Y., Sen, T., Shen, C. W., Cheong, C., Shuyi, K., Chan, L. P., & Carvalho, P. M. (2014). Secrets of the fallen pagoda: The famen temple and Tang Court culture. Singapore: Asian Civilisations Museum.
Description: The capital of Tang China (618 – 907), Chang'an (present day Xi'an), was a hub for economic and cultural exchange. Nearby lies the Famen Temple, one of the most revered Buddhist sites in China. A finger bone relic of the Buddha and magnificent Tang dynasty objects of gold, silver, ceramics, and glass were sealed within an underground crypt there. For more than 1000 years, these treasures were forgotten until their chance discovery in 1987. Together with objects from other leading museums in Shaanxi, the exhibition covered by this text is a rare showcase of Tang aesthetics and culture for the first time in Southeast Asia. This catalogue accompanies an exhibition at the Asian Civilisations Museum of treasures from the Famen Temple crypt and other Tang dynasty artworks. Essays examine relic worship at the Famen Temple and the Buddhist world of the Tang, the rationale for the arrangement of donations in the crypt chambers, and the Tang dynasties contacts with the wider world. Figures and murals from tombs, magnificent reliquary boxes, rare ceramics, and gold and silver metalwork tell the story of life and culture during the Tang. 226 pages
Type: Book
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11861/10822
ISBN: 9789810789473
Appears in Collections:Sociology - Publication

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