The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c9.105

c9.105

¹ We should like to connect with these groups from Ta-t'ong-fu others somewhat later, which decorate the grottos of the pass of Long-Men (Ho-nan), of which also M. CHAVANNES has brought back photographs taken in the course of his last mission in China (see, already, Toung Pao, Oct. 1908, fig. 4; cf. Journal asiatique, July-August 1912, figg. 1-4; Bull. École fr. Extr.-Or., V, 1905, fig. 36) : but here the two acolyte Buddhas have been changed into two simple monks! The transformation might in strictness be explained by scrupulous orthodoxy (cf. above, pp. 161-162).