Beschreibung
Buddhist Art from Khara Khoto (X-XIIIth century)
Exhibition in the State Hermitage Museum, St.Petersburg.
The exhibition contains mesterpieces of Buddhist art which are both intellectually exciting and aesthetically delightful. They have their origin in a truly remarkable medieval civilisation, that of the Tanggut state of Xi Xia. Destroyed by effrts of several generations of scholars have now restored this lost culture to the common human heritage.