On his second Central Asian expedition of 1906 to 1908, Aurel Stein recovered a great hoard of paintings from a walled-up chapel at the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas near Dunhuang. Here he and Laurence Binyon describe selected pieces plate by plate, from paradises of Bhaishajyaguru to processions of Manjushri and Samantabhadra, and place them in the history of Buddhist art.
A primary record of one of the great finds of Asian art, for students of Buddhism and the Silk Road. Download the free EPUB.