Member Lecture: Empress Dowager Cisheng’s Patronage of Buddhist Art @artinstitutechi
Member Lecture: Empress Dowager Cisheng’s Patronage of Buddhist Art @artinstitutechi
Uploaded March 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
Seung Hee Oh, assistant curator of Chinese art in Arts of Asia, explores one of the most generous patrons of Buddhism art in China, Empress Dowager Cisheng of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), and her commission of King Gao’s Avalokitesvara Sutra in 1590.
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Member Lecture: Empress Dowager Cisheng’s Patronage of Buddhist Art

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