T'IEN-LUNG SHAN


Meaning of T'IEN-LUNG SHAN in English

Pinyin Tianlong Shan, site in central Shansi sheng (province), China, where there is a series of Buddhist cave temples dating from the mid-6th century, as well as cave temples containing images in the developed T'ang-dynasty sculptural style of the late 7th and 8th centuries. Many intact and fragmentary images of these famous T'ang sculptures are now in collections outside China. The stone images (often painted) represent the extreme development of sensuous and voluptuous sculptural form generally considered characteristic of the T'ang period. The style represents a Chinese reworking of the standard Buddha form developed in the Gupta period (320647) in India. The T'ang sculptural style seen at T'ien-lung Shan was succeeded by increasing fleshiness, which became a norm for debased and popular traditions of Buddhist images throughout the later history of China.

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