Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. xv, 497 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm

Summary

1. Liao Architecture is a study of Buddhist halls, tombs, and pagodas built primarily through the patronage of Northeast Asian lords of Qidan nationality from the mid-tenth through the first decades of the twelfth century. During those years, North China was part of a larger Qidan empire known as the Liao dynasty. The Qidan, in the ninth century, were a seminomadic tribe living along China's northern and northeastern borders. Less than fifty years later, by the early years of the tenth century, they and other North Asia groups were confederated under the leadership of a Qidan chieftain named Abaoji. In 947 Abaoji's son established a Chinese-style dynasty named Liao. Liao territory stretched from the Gobi Desert, across Mongolia, into China's Northeast provinces (former Manchuria), and into Korea. It also included sixteen prefectures of North China.

Subject

1. Birgittenkloster Uden
2. 960-1368
3. Buddhist monasteries > China > Liao River Region
4. Building, Wooden > China > Liao River Region
5. Sepulchral monuments > China > Liao River Region
6. Architecture > China > History > Song-Yuan dynasties, 960-1368
7. Architecture > Song-Yuan dynasties
8. Buddhist monasteries
9. Building, Wooden
10. Sepulchral monuments
11. Architektur
12. Buddhismus
13. Geschichte
14. Grabmal
15. Holzbau
16. Bouwkunst
17. Architecture > China > Song-Yuan dynasties,960-1368
18. Kloster
19. China
20. Liao-He-Gebiet

Genre/Form

1. History.

Contents

1. 1. Introduction -- pt. I. The Timber Frame Tradition. 2. Dulesi. 3. Chinese Architecture before Dulesi. 4. Fengguosi. 5. Yingxian Timber Pagoda. 6. Liao Monasteries in the Western Capital. 7. Other Liao Buddhist Halls. 8. Song Wooden Halls at the Time of Liao. 9. Jin Architecture: A Liao Legacy? -- pt. II. The Funerary Tradition. 10. The Imperial Qidan Funerary Tradition. 11. Chinese Funerary Architecture before Qingling. 12. Liao Tombs beyond Qingling. 13. The Funerary Traditions of North and Northeast Asia -- pt. III. The Architectural Legacy of Liao. 14. Conclusion.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 447-486) and index.