num_pages: 270
description: This magnificent volume commemorates a historic exhibition that brought early Buddhist treasures from Japan's ancient capital, mostly from the Nara National Museum, on their first visit to the West. Here are 87 transcendent archaeological finds, paintings, sculpture,crafts, and calligraphy from the seventh through the fourteenth centuries, works that capture Buddhism's yearning for a state of grace and for communion with the divine.
language: English
title: Buddhist Treasures from Nara
titlecomplete: Buddhist Treasures from Nara
ratings_count: 2
publisher: Hudson Hills