Donors and image in Dunhuang
- This essay explores a case of a religious painting in Dunhuang, an icon of the Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara (OA 1919,0101,0.54), offered as a joint, multi-generational family enterprise. During the 9th and 10th centuries, we see that donor-portraits became increasingly important as fixtures in votive paintings produced in Dunhuang, in some cases even surpassing the importance of the main icon itself. Not only was it the living who sought to create religious merit for themselves and their deceased relatives, but in many paintings the dead were still very much "active", or at least present.
| Author: | Henrik Hjort SørensenORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:294-70516 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.13154/rub.br.121.107 |
| ISSN: | 2628-2356 |
| Subtitle (English): | a case study of OA 1919,0101,0.54 |
| Series (Serial Number): | BuddhistRoad Paper (4.1) |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2020/03/12 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2019/10/14 |
| Publishing Institution: | Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universitätsbibliothek |
| Tag: | BuddhistRoad, Project ID: 725519 |
| Pagenumber: | 25 |
| Note: | BuddhistRoad, Project ID: 725519 |
| Relation (DC): | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/725519 |
| Institutes/Facilities: | Centrum für Religionswissenschaftliche Studien (CERES) |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | Religion / Andere Religionen |
| OpenAIRE: | OpenAIRE |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 - Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell - Keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International |
