Bodhisattva’s Crown with Birds Holding Ribbons in Dunhuang Caves

Meiye Li

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Bodhisattva’s Crown with Birds Holding Ribbons in Dunhuang Caves

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Meiye Li¹^{, *}

¹The high school afflict to Renmin University of China, Beijing, 100080, China

^*Corresponding author. Email: meiye_li@icloud.com

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Available Online 28 March 2025.

DOI: 10.2991/978-2-38476-382-5_36 How to use a DOI?
Keywords: Dunhuang Caves; Qiuci Caves; Crown with Bird holding Ribbon in its Beak; the Silk Road
Abstract: The Bodhisattva’s crown, with birds holding ribbons in their beaks, was popular in Dunhuang caves’ murals from the 5th to 7th centuries. It originated from Persian Sasanian, appeared in the murals of Qiuci Caves in Xinjiang during the 4th and 5th centuries, and spread to Dunhuang from Qiuci in the middle of the 5th century. It was in the mid-5th century that China gained control of the region from the Hexi Corridor to the Qiuci Kingdom, and Buddhism, which had been suppressed by Emperor Daowu of the Northern Wei Dynasty, was once again revived in China. The spreading of the crown is mainly in the form of images rather than entities. Compared with Qiuci, Bodhisattva’s Crown with Birds holding ribbons in its beak in Dunhuang Caves is more casual in details and usage scenarios, indicating that it had transformed to pure decoration due to the loss of original cultural background during the propagation.
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Volume Title: Proceedings of the 2024 International Conference on Social Sciences and Educational Development (ICOSSED 2024)
Series: Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date: 28 March 2025
ISBN: 978-2-38476-382-5
ISSN: 2352-5398
DOI: 10.2991/978-2-38476-382-5_36 How to use a DOI?
Open Access: Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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