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Department
School of Arts
Qualifications
MA SOAS; MSc London School of Economics; BSc London School of Economics
Subject
Arts
Thesis title
From narrative episodes of the life of Historic Buddha to iconic images of Bodhisattvas: The conceptualisation of Bodhisattva in Gandhāra in the context of Early Mahāyāna
Internal Supervisors
Dr Christian Luczanits & Professor Ashley Thompson

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Qianhui gained her BSc and MSc from the London School of Economics. 

She also completed a Postgraduate Diploma and MA in History of Art and Archaeology at SOAS, where she developed her interested in Gandhāran Buddhist art. Her MA dissertation was her first attempt to explore the changing forms of Buddhism and the development of Buddhist art during the formative period of Early Mahāyāna Buddhism from the turn of the millennium to around third century CE under the rule of the Kushans. 

Her PhD project focuses on the conceptualisation of Buddha and bodhisattva, and the interdependence of narrative and iconic images. Qianhui is also an artist-maker, working with clay and metal.

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Buddhist art in Gandhāra; Early Mahāyāna Buddhism

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