By Tonia Eckfeld
ISBN-10: 0203086767
ISBN-13: 9780203086766
ISBN-10: 041530220X
ISBN-13: 9780415302203
Intellectually and visually stimulating, this significant landmark publication seems to be on the non secular, political, social and creative importance of the Imperial tombs of the Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD). It lines the evolutionary improvement of the main elaborately attractive imperial tombs to check primary concerns on dying and the afterlife in a single of the world's so much refined civilizations. chosen tombs are awarded by way of their constitution, creative courses and their reasons. the writer units the tombs within the context of chinese language attitudes in the direction of the afterlife, the politics of mausoleum structure, and the creative vocabulary which was once turning into the mainstream of chinese language civilization.
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There was a pair of lions outside each of the four gates of the inner wall, and outside its north gate there was an additional pair of horses. The pairs of sculptures flanking the path are symbols of civil and military power – some literal in their correspondence to key elements of imperial administration, others symbolic. 9). 48 Although ostriches were little known in China, two were delivered as tributes to the Tang court, both in the seventh century. 49 The inclusion of this real-life exotic element in the sculptural programme of the tombs served as a reflection of the power of the Tang emperor who could attract such impressive tributes from distant lands, and perhaps recalled Gaozong’s offering to Taizong.
15 The pillars had ornately carved crouching dragons (symbols of the emperor) at the base, an octagonal shaft incised with dragon and floral designs, and above, an octagonal capital with a seated lion at its top. It is interesting to note the Buddhist content in the sculptural programme at the site, with a stone relief in the form of a niche occupied by a seated Buddha flanked by attendant bodhisattvas, and donor figures. Today, the condition of the relief is poor and the loss of detail prevents identification of the figures, although it is likely that the primary figure was Maitreya or Amitabha.
When Gaozong passed away late in 683, Zhongzong lasted as emperor for only eight weeks, to be replaced by the younger Ruizong early in 684. 13 Commemoration of Li Xian Li Xian’s body was buried in a commoner’s grave in Bazhou, and almost immediately shifts in imperial power caused changes in the ways in which he was commemorated. In 685, one year after his death, his former title, Prince of Yong, was posthumously restored and he was officially mourned, but his body remained in its remote location through the following periods of Wu Zetian’s effective control from 684 to 689 and legitimised rule from 690 to 705.
Imperial Tombs in Tang China (Routledgecurzon Studies in the Early History of Asia, 1) by Tonia Eckfeld
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