Excerpt from In Japan: Pilgrimages to the Shrines of Art Japan received from China the principles of that Buddhist art which she herself had borrowed from India, just as she had borrowed her religion, her morals, her philosophy, and her writing. Embassies and pilgrimages were the vehicles of these multiple influences and it was through them that in the course of eight centuries Japan received with fervour so many monuments of Chinese art which her emperors, her nobles, and her temples absorbed. About the Publisher ...
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Excerpt from In Japan: Pilgrimages to the Shrines of Art Japan received from China the principles of that Buddhist art which she herself had borrowed from India, just as she had borrowed her religion, her morals, her philosophy, and her writing. Embassies and pilgrimages were the vehicles of these multiple influences and it was through them that in the course of eight centuries Japan received with fervour so many monuments of Chinese art which her emperors, her nobles, and her temples absorbed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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