Artwork Details

Title
Pilgrimage Map of Wutaishan
Artist
Lhundrup
Dimensions
47 1/8 × 68 in. (estimated)
Medium
Painted xylograph
Origin
Cifu Temple (慈福寺), Wutaishan, China
Classification(s)
woodblock print map paintings
Date
dated 1846
Credit Line
Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art
Object number
C2004.29.1
Bibliography
Faith and Empire: Art and Politics in Tibetan Buddhism
HAR Number
65371
Published references
*Linrothe, Rob. Holy Madness: Portraits of Tantric Siddhas. New York: Rubin Museum of Art; Chicago: Serindia Publications, 2006. Fig.10.1; Pp. 166-168, 421* Raguin, Virginia Chieffo, Dina Bangdel, and F. E. Peters. Pilgrimage and Faith: Buddhism, Christianity and Islam. Chicago: Serindia Publications, 2010. Print. Figure 16, p. 104-105* Rubin, Donald. Looking to the Future in Arts of Asia 40, no. 2, (2010): 64.* Baumer, Christophe Stefan Jean. China's Holy Mountain: An Illustrated Journey Into the Heart of Buddhism. New York: I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd., 2008. pp. 228-231.* Isabelle Charleux. Nomads on Pilgrimage: Mongols on Wutaishan (China) 1800-1940. Leiden: Brill, 2015. Color. Figs. 3, 45. P. 16.* Wen-shing Chou, "Maps of Wutai Shan: Individuating the Sacred Landscape through Color,"Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies, no. 6 (December 2011),http://www.thlib.org?tid=T5713.* Wen-shing Chou. "Ineffable Paths: Mapping Wutaishan in Qing-Dynasty China." Art Bulletin 89, no. 1 (March 2007): 108-129.* Wen-shing Chou. Mount Wutai: Visions of a Sacred Buddhist Mountain. Princeton University Press, 2018. Fig. 4.2 Pp. 124-5. Detail shots: figs. 4.21, 4.22, 4.23, 4.32, 4.33, 4.34, 4.40, 4.43.* Karl Debreczeny. "Wutaishan: Pilgrimage to Five Peak Mountain." Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies, Issue 6 (Dec 2011): Cat 1, pp. 49-56.* Natalie Köhle. "Why Did the Kangxi Emperor Go to Wutai Shan?: Patronage, Pilgrimage, and the Place of Tibetan Buddhism at the Early Qing Court." Late Imperial China 29, no. 1 (June 2008). Footnote 117. P. 98.* The All-Knowing Buddha: A Secret Guide. Rubin Museum of Art, 2013, pp. 28, 168, Fig. 18, fn. 168* Debreczeny, Karl. Faith and Empire: Art and Politics in Tibetan Buddhism. New York: Rubin Museum of Art, 2019. Fig. 9.1, pp. 192-193, 268

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