This project focuses on a set of sixteen over-life-sized ceramic sculptures of arhats (or Luohan) made during the Liao dynasty (907-1125). They are considered by many to be the most outstanding examples of ceramic sculptures in the world and are part of a set of seated arhats, or “spiritually perfected ones.” The former site of these sculptures has not been located, though they are attributed to a cave in the general environs of Buddhist caves at today’s Yixian, Hebei. Today, the set of sculptures is separated in various museums and private collections around the world, and only ten of the original statues can be safely identified. These extant ceramic sculptures are in eight museums on three continents, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Nelson-Atkins Museum, Penn Museum, Royal Ontario Museum, British Museum, Musée Guimet in Paris, and Matsukata Collection in Japan.