From Gandhara and Mathuran: Tracing the transmission of Buddhist visual culture into China.

Two thousand years ago, the Buddha's image traveled from India to China. But it didn't end up in a temple.

It appeared in tombs — on strange bronze trees covered in coins, next to Chinese gods, deep inside cliffs in southwest China. Why was a holy teacher from India buried with the dead, in a paradise that belonged to someone else?

Join guest speaker Handa Wang to uncover the mystery of China's first Buddha images, and find out what ancient people really saw in these calm, foreign faces.

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