Region: Dali Kingdom Style Art Main Page
Regions Main PageSubjects, Topics & Types:
- Description (below)
- Painting
- Sculpture
- Manuscripts
- Buddha Figures
- Peaceful Figures
- Acharya Lokeshvara
- Lokeshvara (Multiple Arms)
- Wrathful Figures
- Trailokyavijaya (Three Legs)
- Miscellaneous Figures & Objects
- Copies, Qianlong and Later
- Modern Copies & Possible Fakes
- Vajra & Bell
- Myanmar Sculpture (Burma)
- Masterworks
- Confusions
- Others...
Chronology:
- Original Dali Works (937-1253)
- Early Dali Copies (Post 1253)
- Qianlong Dali Copies (1735-1796)
- Post Qianlong Dali Copies (Post 1796)
The Dali Kingdom, situated in the Yunnan Province of China, began in 937 and continued through a succession of twenty-two kings to end in 1253 at the hands of the Mongol army of Kublai Khan.
Jeff Watt 5-2015 [updated 6-2017]
Videos:
- Dali's Daggers: Buddhist Material Culture on the Southern Silk Road by Megan Bryson (@ SOAS)
- The Limits of Chinese Buddhism: Protecting the State in the Dali Kingdom (937-1253), Megan Bryson, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
