Mount Wutai: Visions of a Sacred Buddhist Mountain

Description

The northern Chinese mountain range of Mount Wutai has been a preeminent site of international pilgrimage for over a millennium. Home to more than one hundred temples, the entire range is considered a Buddhist paradise on earth, and has received visitors ranging from emperors to monastic and lay devotees. Mount Wutai explores how Qing Buddhist rule

Wen-Shing Chou is assistant professor of art history at Hunter College, City University of New York.

"Honorable Mention for the Joseph Levenson Pre-1900 Book Prize, Association for Asian Studies" "Chou's study, like the many examples of maps, gazetteers, paintings, murals, sculptures, and temples discussed in her work, continues to shape, guide, and construct our visions of Mount Wutai."---William J. Ma, Religion and the Arts "richly detailed and beautifully illustrated. . . . a major contribution to the growing corpus of studies on Wutai shan."---Natalie Koehle, Journal of Chinese Religions