About the Author

Dorothy C. Wong is associate professor in the Department of Art at the University of Virginia.

Reviews

Recommended by Choice
“Wong’s use of an extensive array of sources and her integration of Japanese scholarship brings to light new details and new perspectives on a truly international, if not quite “global,” Buddhist art style.”


"A splendid introduction to a vast subject, written with such precision that it will certainly become a basic reference. [...] Wong tells this story with such clarity that, although it is dense with references to the various sūtras, it makes gripping reading [...] Her book admirably describes the religious, artistic and intellectual developments which created the Tang cosmopolis and the flowering of its Buddhist art." — Academia