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January 21, 2022 | Located in present-day Gansu Province in northwestern China, the Mogao Caves at Dunhuang were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1987. Nearly 500 man-made caves carved into mountain cliffs between the fourth to fourteenth centuries were painted with Buddhist murals and installed with clay icons. In her talk, Michelle C. Wang provided an overview of the architecture and art of the Mogao Caves and focus on one popular motif, the “Thousand Buddhas.” Comprised of repeated images of seated Buddhas, the Thousand Buddhas motif opens onto Buddhist concepts of time and cosmology, artistic patronage, and the artist’s practice at Dunhuang. Wang’s presentation was followed by a Q&A moderated by Michael Scott.
This event was part of the China and the West: Cultural Dialogues series, sponsored by Georgetown University's Future of the Humanities Project (a partnership with Campion Hall, Oxford, and Blackfriars Hall, Oxford) in cooperation with the Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding in London.
