Indian Art on the Silk Road and its Impact

Speaker: Prof. Monika Zin, Department of Indology & Tibetology, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich

 

Chair: Dr. R.C. Agarwal

 

The lecture will provide an overview of the art on the fringes of the Taklamakan Desert; and special reference will be made to the region of Kucha with its magnificent wall-paintings that go back directly to Indian prototypes. It will present the latest, still unpublished results of research and will discuss select examples of the transfer of Indian archetypical image types to the Far East