The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Tartar Huntsman

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Buddhism along the Silk Road

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Thousands of years of trade and invasion brought Buddhist monks into contact with merchants and nomadic peoples in Central Asia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India. This short video, produced in conjunction with the exhibition Buddhism along the Silk Road: 5th–8th Century, shows how these interactions occurred.

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Tartar Huntsman

Unidentified Artist

Artist:: Formerly Attributed to Qiu Ying (Chinese, ca. 1495–1552)
Period:: Ming (1368–1644) or Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
Date:: ca. 1530
Culture:: China
Medium:: Handscroll; on silk
Dimensions:: W (closed): 12 3/8 in. (31.4 cm)
Classification:: Paintings
Credit Line:: Gift of William Hu, 1919
Accession Number:: 19.166

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