Sixteen Kingdoms | Buddhist Art Timeline

Sixteen Kingdoms: Buddhist art history across India, China, Tibet, Korea, and Japan — periodization for art-history courses. Connects to Hong Kong and Chinese Buddhist cultural context.

Overview

Sixteen Kingdoms: Buddhist art history across India, China, Tibet, Korea, and Japan — periodization for art-history courses. Connects to Hong Kong and Chinese Buddhist cultural context.

Key topics

  • Buddhist Art Timeline
  • Sixteen Kingdoms
  • Hong Kong Buddhism
  • Buddhist art
  • temple culture

Module

This page belongs to the Art Timeline section.

Full article in Chinese

The complete scholarly article with extended analysis and primary-source citations is available in Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese.

Further Reading

Art & culture

Buddhist art illustration

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CBETA Scripture Links

CBETA reader interface is in Chinese; search results link to the scripture.

Further Academic Reading

Selected papers from the NTU Buddhist Digital Library (catalog titles may be in Chinese or Japanese).