American Council for Southern Asian Art
Living Rock
Friday, February 16, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Rendezvous Trianon, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Pia Brancaccio, Drexel University; Frederick M. Asher, University of Minnesota
Seeing into Stone: Early Buddhist and Pre-Buddhist Carvings in Zangskar
Rob Linrothe, Skidmore College
Carving the Divine/Carving the Liberated: Articulations of “Presence” in Ellora’s Hindu and Jain Cave Temples
Lisa Nadine Owen
How the Monastic Communities of Kucha, Xinjiang, Used Their Rock Cliff Caves
Angela Howard, Rutgers State University of New Jersey
Living Rocks and the Special Dead: Stupa Reliefs in Medieval China
Sunkyung Kim, Duke University
King of Kings of Iran and Non-Iran: The Monumental Rock Relief in Sasanian Iran between East and West
Matthew Canepa, College of Charleston