In The Five-Colored Clouds of Mount Wutai: Poems from Dunhuang, Mary Anne Cartelli introduces a significant corpus of Chinese Buddhist poems from the Dunhuang manuscripts celebrating Mount Wutai. They offer important literary evidence for the transformation of the mountain into the earthly paradise of the bodhisattva Mañjuśrī by the Tang dynasty.

Mary Anne Cartelli, Ph.D. (1999) in East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University, is Assistant Professor of Chinese at Hunter College of the City University of New York. Her research interests include Dunhuang literature, Silk Road culture and medieval Chinese literature.