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"title": "Stele with Sakyamuni and Bodhisattvas",
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"title": "Images of Enlightenment: Gems from Buddhist Art of Asia",
"description": "Images of Enlightenment: Gems from Buddhist Art of Asia. Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (September 26-December 15, 1998).",
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"description": "In the Footsteps of Buddha: An Iconic Journey from India To China. University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (September-December 1998). cat. no. 93",
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"did_you_know": "Traces of polychrome paints remaining in the interstices of the carving, particularly on the foliate carving around Shakyamuni, suggest the stele was originally brightly colored.",
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"description": "According to the inscription, this stele was commissioned in 537 by Yuan'ning, prince of the Gaoping branch of the imperial Wei family, in memory of his deceased consort, in the hope that it would bring her to the Western paradise. It was carved by one of the finest craftsmen in the Eastern Wei capital of Ye in Hebei province.
Here, the Buddha's robe shows a careful arrangement of patterned drapery (large U-shaped folds and scallop-shaped folds at the hem), combining linear rhythms with an ordered symmetry. Soaring flames edge the mandorla (almond-shaped halo), echoing the linear eloquence of Chinese painting.",
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"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 111, 112, fig. 86A and B",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
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"citation": "Selected Works: Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: pl. 53",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
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"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n274"
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 330",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n350"
},
{
"citation": "Berthier, Fran\u00e7ois. Genesis of Japanese Buddhist sculpture . [Paris]: Publications orientalistes de France, 1979.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: pl. 95",
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"citation": "Linduff, Katheryn M. Tradition, Phase, and Style of Shang and Chou Bronze Vessels. New York: Garland Pub, 1979.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: plate 5, p. 254",
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"citation": "Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan National Palace Museum. Hai wai yi zhen. fo xiang [\u5916\u5275\u73ce. \u4f5b\u50cf= Chinese art in overseas collections. Buddhist sculpture]. Taibei Shi: Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan, 1990.",
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"citation": "Lee, Sherman E., and Naomi Noble Richard. A History of Far Eastern Art. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1994.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 160, fig. 203",
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"citation": "Wilson, J. Keith, and Anne E. Wardwell. \"New Objects/New Insights: Cleveland's Recent Chinese Acquisitions.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art vol. 81, no. 8 (1994): 270-347.",
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"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161465"
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"citation": "Watson, William. The Arts of China to AD 900. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: fig. 236, p. 144",
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"citation": "Ghose, Rajeshwari, Puay-peng Ho, and Chuntang Yang. Fa xiang chuan zhen: gu dai fo jiao yi shu [\u6cd5\u76f8\u50b3\u771f : \u53e4\u4ee3\u4f5b\u6559\u517f\u8853; In the footsteps of the Buddha: an iconic journey from India to China]. Hong Kong: Xianggang da xue mei shu bo wu guan, 1998.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: cat. no. 93, p. 301",
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"citation": "May, Sally Ruth, Jane Takac, and Barbara J. Bradley. Knockouts: A Pocket Guide. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: no. 78, p. 74; Mentioned: p. 119",
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"citation": "Sun, Di, editor. Zhongguo liu shi hai wai Fo jiao zao xiang zong he tu mu [\u4e2d\u56fd\u6d41\u5931\u6d77\u5916\u4f5b\u6559\u9020\u50cf\u603b\u5408\u56fe\u76ee = Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue of Chinese Buddhist Statues in Overseas Collections]. Beijing: Wai wen chu ban she, 2005.",
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"citation": "Franklin, David and C. Griffith Mann. Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2012.",
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"citation": "Chung, Anita. \"Re-Emergence: New Chinese Galleries and Art Acquisitions of The Cleveland Museum of Art.\" Orientations 44, no. 8 (November/December 2013): 64-75.",
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"citation": "Lin, Nancy. \"5000 Years of Korean Art: Exhibitions abroad as cultural diplomacy.\" Journal of the History of Collections Vol. 28, no. 3 (2016): 383-400.",
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"citation": "Giuffrida, Noelle. Separating Sheep from Goats: Sherman E. Lee and Chinese Art Collecting in Postwar America. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2018.",
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