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0365 On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks : vol.1
中央アジア踏査記 : vol.1
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CHAPTER XIV

BUDDHIST PAINTINGS FROM THE THOUSAND BUDDHAS

The paintings recovered from the walled-up cave chapel of
the 'Thousand Buddhas' are so numerous and so varied in
character that I cannot attempt here more than a rapid
review of the chief classes as illustrated by characteristic
specimens. In view of the importance attaching to these
abundant materials for the study of Buddhist pictorial art
as transplanted to China, a few remarks on the data bearing
on their origin and chronology may precede that review.

In the first place, it is important to note that the evidence
of dated votive inscriptions on paintings entirely agrees with
that which, as already mentioned, dated Chinese texts and
documents furnish as to the final closing up of the deposit
having taken place about the beginning of the eleventh
century A.D.

But the small well-sheltered recess may have served for
some time before as a place of deposit for all kinds of sacred
objects no longer needed in the various shrines and monastic
quarters. Anyhow it is certain that some of the objects
were of considerable antiquity already at the time when the
chapel was walled up. Thus among the thousands of the
Chinese manuscripts and documents brought away there
are exactly dated ones reaching back as far as the early part
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