Secrets of the Fallen Pagoda, The Famen Temple and Tang Court Culture, an exhibition monograph with contributions from Eugene Y. Wang, Tansen Sen and a team of curators published by the Asian Civilisations Museum in Singapore in 2014, documents the reliquary treasures, including a finger bone relic attributed to the Buddha, discovered when the collapsed Famen Temple pagoda in Shaanxi was excavated in 1987, alongside the imperial Tang court objects buried with them. Its strength is that an exhibition catalogue of this kind is written by the specialists who study the actual excavated collection and typically includes original scholarly essays alongside the object descriptions, closer to the primary material than a general history. Its limit is that a museum exhibition volume is shaped by what could be borrowed and displayed for that particular show, so a claim needing the complete excavation record or ongoing Chinese archaeological scholarship on Famen benefits from the excavation reports themselves alongside this account.
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AuthorEugene Y. Wang, Tansen Sen, Wang Shen, Alan Chong, Kan Shuyi, Pedro Moura Carvalho, Libby Lai-Pik Chan and Conan Cheong
The exhibition catalogue's own contributor list for "Secrets of the Fallen Pagoda: Treasures from Famen Temple and the Tang Court," Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore, 2014, per WorldCat and the Smithsonian Institution Libraries catalogue record. PublisherAsian Civilisations Museum, Singapore
Publication Year2014
Source Typeacademic monograph
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Secrets of the Fallen Pagoda, an exhibition monograph with contributions from Eugene Y. Wang, Tansen Sen and a specialist curatorial team, published by the Asian Civilisations Museum in Singapore in 2014, treated at the top tier. NotesAcademic exhibition monograph on the Famen Temple relics and Tang court culture.
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- Sacred Sites, 8 claims: 6 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 8 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 holds.
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