TY - GEN
T1 - Fengxiansi Cave in the Digital Narrative
AU - Chen, Wu Wei
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - 12 kms south of Luoyang City in Henan province, Longmen Grottoes mark the milestone of the Chinese royal Buddhist cave temples since the Taiho era of the Emperor Hsiaowenti of the Northern Wei in China, 459AD. Among thousands of deities and caves, the Locana Buddha and the pairing deities of Fengxiansi Cave accomplished during Empress Wu’s regime in 675AD, symbolize the mixture of ideology among royalty, politics, and belief. The representative image of the site - both colossal and volumetric - also depicts the future Buddha and Mesiaah in the thought. Unfortunately, the constant looting last century caused huge loss and damages to the sites and works. Persistent efforts are made by the collaborations of academia, global museums and local institutions to bring the overseas heritage back to the home soil by their digital doubles. Inspired by the joint efforts of the forerunners in the digital restoration, this paper focuses on the challenges, former digital restoration projects, and further possibilities of the virtual reinterpretations of the site through the digital heritage imaging.
AB - 12 kms south of Luoyang City in Henan province, Longmen Grottoes mark the milestone of the Chinese royal Buddhist cave temples since the Taiho era of the Emperor Hsiaowenti of the Northern Wei in China, 459AD. Among thousands of deities and caves, the Locana Buddha and the pairing deities of Fengxiansi Cave accomplished during Empress Wu’s regime in 675AD, symbolize the mixture of ideology among royalty, politics, and belief. The representative image of the site - both colossal and volumetric - also depicts the future Buddha and Mesiaah in the thought. Unfortunately, the constant looting last century caused huge loss and damages to the sites and works. Persistent efforts are made by the collaborations of academia, global museums and local institutions to bring the overseas heritage back to the home soil by their digital doubles. Inspired by the joint efforts of the forerunners in the digital restoration, this paper focuses on the challenges, former digital restoration projects, and further possibilities of the virtual reinterpretations of the site through the digital heritage imaging.
KW - Cyber archiving
KW - Digital heritage
KW - Fengxiansi Cave
KW - Ground-truth documentation
KW - Longmen grottoes
KW - Photogrammetry
KW - Virtual restoration
KW - World heritage site
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-54053-0_8
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-54053-0_8
M3 - Conference Proceeding
AN - SCOPUS:85189308234
SN - 9783031540523
T3 - Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
SP - 99
EP - 107
BT - Advances in Information and Communication - Proceedings of the 2024 Future of Information and Communication Conference FICC
A2 - Arai, Kohei
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - Future of Information and Communication Conference, FICC 2024
Y2 - 4 April 2024 through 5 April 2024
ER -