Link between China’s Kizil Rock-Cut Cave Temple and Buddhist art here
The National Trust – Sri Lanka lecture on Thursday, September 26 will be on “Buddhist art of the Silk Road with special reference to Kizil rock-cut cave temple in Xinjiang province of China”. The lecture will be delivered by Bindu Urugodawatte at the HNB Auditorium, 22nd Floor, HNB Towers, 479 T.B. Jayah Mawatha, Colombo 10 at 6.30 p.m.
The lecture mainly focuses on the Buddhist art of Kizil Rock-Cut Cave Temple and its affinity to Theravada Buddhist art based on Buddhist art of Sri Lanka. The differences in themes of Buddhist art of the other Rock-Cut Temples in the region will also be discussed.
Kizil rock-cut cave temple is located in the village of Baicheng near the city of Kuche of the Xinjiang Autonomous Region and consists of 236 caves which have been dated to 4th to 7th or 8th centuries CE.
Bindu Urugodawatte is the Deputy Director Research at the SAARC Cultural Centre, a Fulbright Scholar, Harvard Fellowship, Asian Fellow (Asian Scholarship Foundation) whose research interests include the Buddhist Archaeology of Sri Lanka and South Asia and the Silk Road, Central Asia and China.
Those who wish to attend the lecture please contact the Trust Office on 2682730 / 0778081214 at the Post Graduate Institute of Archaeology, 407, Bauddhaloka Mawatha, Colombo 7, by Tuesday, the 24th to provide personal details and vehicle no. if applicable, due to security concerns.