The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c9.169

c9.169

II. — Pl. XXI, 2, was taken from a photograph brought back by M. Ed. CHAVANNES from his last mission to China (1907-1908), and first appeared in the Bulletin du Comité de l'Asie française, April 1908, fig. 5. From the inscriptions M. CHAVANNES dates the execution of the original in the Vth century of our era, under the dynasty of the Northern Wei.