Posthumous Release for Lay Women in Tang China: Two Cases from the Longmen Grottoes
Famous for its cliff-carved Buddhist cave-shrines, Longmen was also a burial ground that attracted a few women from the seventh and the eighth centuries. This paper examines the burial caves of two lay women, Lady Lou (d. 661) and Lady Zhang (c. 658–c. 718), in relation to the newly excavated archae...
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Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2023-03-01
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Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/14/3/365 |