CHINESE TREASURES RETURN TO BEIJING

(Exhibition Held at Beijing Hotel, China July 2003)

Chinese Treasures Return to Beijing, an exhibit held at the Beijing Hotel, China from June - September 2003 where 16 masterpieces from the C.K.Chan private collection were put on display.  The items consisted of Buddhist stone and wood sculptures from the Northern Wei to Song Dynasties that were removed from China early in the 20th Century.  Highlighting the exhibit are two stone sculptures, a Buddha head, and a Bodhisattva head, that belong to the Longmen Caves of Luoyang where virtually no complete Buddhist image remain today.  The original locations at the caves  and torsos of which the two heads belong to have been identified.  It is hope that these relics will be returned and restored to their rightful places one day.

November 2005 UPDATE  - Happily, seven Longmen Cave artifacts including those from this exhibition were re-acquired by the Chinese government.   A ceremony of their return was held at Longmen Grotto's on Oct. 22, 2005.   See Press Coverage. 

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LOST STATUES OF LONGMEN CAVE

Lost Statues of Longmen Cave, a collaboration by C.K.Chan and Chinese scholars, Wen Yu Cheng (温玉成) and Wang Zhen Guo (王振国) was published in 1993.  The book presents Buddhist stone heads and figures from the Longmen Caves located at overseas museums and private collections along with  historical pictures of the Longmen Grottos before and after these artifacts were removed.  Attempts have been made to identify original locations of some of the Buddhist artifacts in the caves.  Detailed inventory of what was originally at each cave and what has been removed and approximate dates have also been summarized.

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ANCIENT CHINESE BUDDHIST SCULPTURE

The C. K. Chan Collection

Ancient Chinese Buddhist Sculpture - The C. K. Chan Collection was published in 1989.  The book presents items from one of the most important and fascinating private collection in the West of Chinese Buddhist stone and wood sculptures dating from Northern Wei to Song Dynasties.  With introductions and contributions from noted Chinese Buddhist Art scholars from China and Taiwan, the knowledge shared in the book contributed to the education and promotion of the splendor of Chinese Buddhist sculptural arts to audiences in the East and West.

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CHINESE BUDDHIST SCULPTURE FROM THE WEI THROUGH THE T'ANG DYNASTIES

Chinese Buddhist Sculpture from the Wei Through the Tan Dynasties - Published by The National Museum of History, Repulic of China in 1983 accompanying an exhibition held in the cities of Taipei, Tainan and Taichung in Taiwan.  The exhibition contained some outstanding objects from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, C.K.Chan as well as other museums and private collectors in the U.S. and Taiwan.  Introductory essays and catalogue entries of the items were contributed by Angela Falco Howard (then) of the MMoA and Abraham P. Ho (何平南) of St. John's University.

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