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This room contains a display of artefacts from the city
of Khara-Khoto, which belonged to the Tangut state of Hsi Hsia before
it perished in the 14th century. These works of art lay for some 700
years beneath the sands of the Gobi Desert. There are Buddhist paintings
on silk and paper in the Chinese and Tibetan artistic traditions,
including The Bodhisattva Kuan-yin, The Deities of the Planets
and The Appearance of Buddha Amitabha. Also of interest
are wooden blocks for printing books with Tangut texts and a painting
of an official that is a splendid example of portraiture from the
Sung dynasty (960-1279). |
