Talk: Early Chinese Buddhist Statues

Two thousand years ago, the Buddha's image traveled from India to China. But it didn't end up in a temple. It appeared in tombs — on strange bronze trees covered in coins, next to Chinese gods, deep inside cliffs in southwest China. Why was a holy teacher from India buried with the dead, in a paradise that belonged to someone else? Join guest speaker Handa Wang to uncover the mystery of China's first Buddha images,…