Program

Preservation and Access: Reference Materials

Period of Performance

1/1/1977 - 6/30/1978

Funding Totals

$45,000.00 (approved)
$45,000.00 (awarded)


Catalogue of 2000 Phtotgarphs of Buddhist Wall Paintings and Sculpture at the Tun-Huang Cave, 450-1300 A.D.

FAIN: PM-10210-76

James Lo
Unaffiliated independent scholar

To provide Asian historians - cultural, Buddhist, social and art - with the unique collection of murals and sculptures in the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas which present a rich panorama of stylistic differences from Wei through Sung (386-1186 A.D.).