Fo Guang Shan Buddha Museum

Buddhist Art Exhibition of Henan

In August 2019, the Longmen Grottoes exhibition is here in Taiwan for the first time. The exhibits date back to the Northern Wei, Northern Qi, Sui, andTang dynasties, and include Buddhist images and steles from places including Longmen Grottoes, Luoyang, Zhengzhou, Gongyi, Fuyang, Xinxiang, Anyang, and Yucheng County. Visitors can get to see 34 items from the Henan Museum and 33 items from the Longmen Grottoes Academe at the Buddha Museum.
Henan is the important birthplace of Chinese civilization and an important source of Buddhist development. Fo Guang Shan shares a close connection with Henan. Apart from past exhibitions and performances, the Buddha Museum has held exhibitions displaying the Henan Gongyi Cave Temple rubbings in 2013, and the ancient jade ware of the Central Plains in 2017.
The Fo Guang Shan Foundation of Buddhist Culture and Education and the Chinese Cultural Relics Exchange Association is entering the third year of the second five-year collaboration. The Light of Longmen Buddha– Buddhist Art Exhibition of Henan will once again set off a high fever at the Buddha Museum. On the occasion of the publication of this catalogue, I would like to thank the State Administration of Cultural Heritage,Chinese Cultural Relics Exchange Association for their full support, Director Ma Xiaolin of the Henan Museum and Director Yu Jiangning of the Longmen Grottoes Academe for their co-curation with the Buddhist Museum, as well as the staff members of the Buddha Museum for their hard work.