Yungang Grottoes Story Sculpture Arts
by Zhao Kunyu
Buddhist story sculpture is one of the very old express contents and forms of Buddhist arts. The Yungang Grottoes story sculptures show the scenes of stories between gods and folks, men and women, and animals and plants. Though more than one thousand and five hundred years have passed, these art images remain vibrant and appealing. In this book, the author carries out an overall discussion over the existing Buddhist story graphics in the Yungang Grottoes concerning their research history, form of expression, story classification, cultural characteristics. This book is a summative and forward-looking production of the research on Yungang Buddhist story sculptures seen so far, and it is also a graphics archive of Yungang Buddhist stories.