Ritual And Representation In Buddhist Art

Author : Jindal Bae,Jeong-hee Lee-Kalisch,Helmut Brinker,Antje Papist-Matsuo,Petra H. Rösch,Lilla Russel-Smith,Petra Maurer,Juliane Noth,Kensuke Nedachi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3897396416

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Ritual and Representation in Buddhist Art by Jindal Bae,Jeong-hee Lee-Kalisch,Helmut Brinker,Antje Papist-Matsuo,Petra H. Rösch,Lilla Russel-Smith,Petra Maurer,Juliane Noth,Kensuke Nedachi Pdf

This publication investigates the ritual and cultural contexts in which art and representations of Buddhist thought were used in East and Central Asia. The book contains nine essays by specialists in the field. The contributions range from the Buddhist cult of relics in ancient China and material evidences for Buddhist rituals of confession and repentance in North Chinese cave temples of the 6th and early 7th centuries to aspects of cultural exchange, regional innovation, and traditions of imperial workmanship as means of dynastic power. The development of popular iconographies based on Avatamsaka doctrine in Tang China and the Korean kingdom of unified Silla is discussed.

Author : Karil J. Kucera
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781621967132

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Ritual and Representation in Chinese Buddhism by Karil J. Kucera Pdf

Includes 159 color images. Baodingshan consists of a monastic complex and two rock-carved areas, Little Buddha Bend and Great Buddha Bend, located in Dazu in western China and dates from the Southern Song period. The complex is fundamentally different from earlier Buddhist rock-carved sites in China in its construction and layout. Foregoing traditional niche-based iconography for large, deeply cut reliefs reaching dimensions as great as eight meters high by twenty meters wide, within Baodingshan's Great Buddha Bend, the carved works flow from one tableau into another. The site contains both texts and images related to the main schools of Buddhist thought. This book presents an integrated analysis of all of the components of Great Buddha Bend within the greater Baodingshan site, something that was lacking in earlier studies. Written to provide guidance to the site for a wide spectrum of readers-specialists and non-specialists alike-it provides a clear explanation of the major iconographic features of the imagery as well as translations of the numerous accompanying carved Buddhist texts. It also presents the basic tenets of Pure Land, Chan [Zen], Huayan and Esoteric Buddhism in order to explain the features of these sects as seen represented in visual as well as textual form at the site. Lastly, with its focus on ritual use and audience reception from the 12th to the 21st century, this study provides a new model for the discussion and evaluation of other religious sites as entities that organically evolve over time. This study also includes new translations of both the inscribed Buddhist texts and secular inscriptions carved at the site dating from the twelfth through the twenty-first centuries-inscriptions left by educated elite, soldiers, and government officials, highlighting regional issues related to continuity and change made visible at Baodingshan.

Author : Judith A. Lerner,Jean-Marie Simonet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 9053495142

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Ritual Objects and Early Buddhist Art by Judith A. Lerner,Jean-Marie Simonet Pdf

Author : K.R. van Kooij,H. van der Veere
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004658646

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Function and Meaning in Buddhist Art by K.R. van Kooij,H. van der Veere Pdf

What was the function of Buddhist art at the time Buddhism was a major religion in large areas of South, East, and South-East Asia? Can we establish what these sculptures and paintings meant to Buddhist believers living at a time when this art fulfilled important religious needs? These questions are discussed, not answered, in a volume about ‘Function and Meaning of Buddhist Art’ which contains the papers of a workshop on this theme held at Leiden University in 1991. While dealing with a variety of themes and subject-matter, sometimes in great detail, sixteen specialists focus on ritual and semantic aspects of Buddhist works of art from countries such as India, China, Japan, Tibet, Thailand, and Indonesia. Recent non-western art-historical publications show an increasing tendency to work with methodological frameworks developed by specialists on western art. Moreover, there are more similarities between Buddhist and other religious art ‘than, literally, meet the eye’. For this reason, two comparative studies are included in which parallels and universals are brought forward. Two main lines emerge in the results offered in this book, the one indicating a tendency to focus on intended meanings; the other concentrating on more than one level of reception of Buddhist art in a liturgical context.

Author : Kurt Behrendt
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781588396730

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How to Read Buddhist Art by Kurt Behrendt Pdf

Intended to inspire the devout and provide a focus for religious practice, Buddhist artworks stand at the center of a great religious tradition that swept across Asia during the first millennia. How to Read Buddhist Art assembles fifty-four masterpieces from The Met collection to explore how images of the Buddha crossed linguistic and cultural barriers, and how they took on different (yet remarkably consistent) characteristics in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, the Himalayas, China, Korea, Japan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Cambodia, and Indonesia. Works highlighted in this rich, concise overview include reliquaries, images of the Buddha that attempt to capture his transcendence, diverse bodhisattvas who protect and help the devout on their personal path, and representations of important teachers. The book offers the essential iconographic frameworks needed to understand Buddhist art and practice, helping the reader to appreciate how artists gave form to subtle aspects of the teachings, especially in the sublime expression of the Buddha himself.

Author : Jinah Kim,Todd Lewis
Publisher : Brill Hotei
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 9004416412

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Dharma and Puṇya by Jinah Kim,Todd Lewis Pdf

Dharma and Puṇya explores the centrality of ritual practices and the agency of people in creating and amplifying the efficacy of Buddhist art. It presents paintings, illuminated texts, statues, and ritual implements from the Newar tradition in the Kathmandu Valley.

Author : Karil J. Kucera
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 162499914X

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Ritual and Representation in Chinese Buddhism by Karil J. Kucera Pdf

Author : Patricia Berger
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780824862367

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Empire of Emptiness by Patricia Berger Pdf

Imperial Manchu support and patronage of Buddhism, particularly in Mongolia and Tibet, has often been dismissed as cynical political manipulation. Empire of Emptiness questions this generalization by taking a fresh look at the huge outpouring of Buddhist painting, sculpture, and decorative arts Qing court artists produced for distribution throughout the empire. It examines some of the Buddhist underpinnings of the Qing view of rulership and shows just how central images were in the carefully reasoned rhetoric the court directed toward its Buddhist allies in inner Asia. The multilingual, culturally fluid Qing emperors put an extraordinary range of visual styles into practice--Chinese, Tibetan, Nepalese, and even the European Baroque brought to the court by Jesuit artists. Their pictorial, sculptural, and architectural projects escape easy analysis and raise questions about the difference between verbal and pictorial description, the ways in which overt and covert meaning could be embedded in images through juxtaposition and collage, and the collection and criticism of paintings and calligraphy that were intended as supports for practice and not initially as works of art.

Author : Anne Nishimura Morse,Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Art, Buddhist
ISBN : UOM:39015052541995

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Object as Insight by Anne Nishimura Morse,Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Pdf

Author : Jacob N. Kinnard
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Buddhism in art
ISBN : 8120817931

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Imaging Wisdom by Jacob N. Kinnard Pdf

On its broadest level, this book contributes to an ongoing expansion of both the history of religions and Buddhist studies by focusing on what is a far too frequently ignored aspect of religious experience: visual images. This is a study that is intended to speak to, and be relevant for, not only those interested specifically in Buddhism, but also scholars and students in the field of religion at large who are interested in the dialectical ways abstract, abstruse and even rarified textual discourses interact with devotional practices 'on the ground'. The specific focus of this book is on the Buddhist visual practices surrounding the visual representation of a single, central concept, prajna, or wisdom, in medieval north India. Prajna, however, was not only an intellectual state and spiritual goal to which to aspire. Rather, wisdom also becomes a quality to be visually represented and ritually responded to, and even an active presence to be venerated in much the same manner as the Buddha himself. This book explores the ways in which the production and use of artistic images involving prajna constituted a central, if not the central, component of Buddhist religious practice in Medieval India.

Author : Eva Rudy Jansen
Publisher : Red Wheel
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9074597025

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The Book of Buddhas by Eva Rudy Jansen Pdf

This book surveys the most common figures and symbols used in Buddhist ritual objects, and is illustrated with many line drawings.

Author : Aksant - Knaw Press,Susan Lubin Huntington,Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (Amsterdam).
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9069846527

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Lay Ritual in the Early Buddhist Art Opb by Aksant - Knaw Press,Susan Lubin Huntington,Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (Amsterdam). Pdf

Author : Kevin Trainor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1997-06-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0521582806

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Relics, Ritual, and Representation in Buddhism by Kevin Trainor Pdf

This book is a serious study of relic veneration among South Asian Buddhists. Drawing on textual sources and archaeological evidence from India and Sri Lanka, including material rarely examined in the West, it looks specifically at the practice of relic veneration in the Sri Lankan Theravada Buddhist tradition. The author portrays relic veneration as a technology of remembrance and representation which makes present the Buddha of the past for living Buddhists. By analysing the abstract ideas, emotional orientation and ritual behaviour centred on the Buddha's material remains, he contributes to the 'rematerializing' of Buddhism which is currently under way among Western scholars. This book is an excellent introduction to Buddhist relics. It is well written and accessible and will be read by scholars and serious students of Buddhism and religious studies for years to come.

Author : Dorothy C. Wong
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781648895463

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Dynamics of Interregional Exchange in East Asian Buddhist Art, 5th–13th Century by Dorothy C. Wong Pdf

This volume examines the various patterns of trans-regional exchanges in Buddhist art within East Asia (China, Korea, and Japan) in the medieval period, from the fifth to the thirteenth centuries. A traditional approach to the study of East Asian Buddhist art revolves around the notion of an artistic relay: India was regarded as the source of inspiration for China, and China in turn influenced artistic production in the Korean peninsula and Japan. While this narrative holds some truth, it has the implicit baggage of assuming that art in the host country is only derivative and obscures a deep understanding of the complexity of transnational exchanges. The essays in this volume aim to go beyond the conventional query of tracing origins and mapping exchanges in order to investigate the agency of the “receivers” with contextual case studies that can expand our understanding of artistic dialogues across cultures. The volume is divided into three sections. In Section I, “Transmission and Local Interpretations,” the three chapters by Jinchao Zhao, Li-kuei Chien, and Hong Wu all address topics of transnational transmission of Buddhist imagery, their figural styles, and subsequent alterations or adaptations based on local preferences and interpretations. Buddhism had important impacts on East Asian countries in the political dimension, especially when the religion and certain Buddhist sutras and deities were believed to have state-protecting properties. The chapters by Dorothy C. Wong, Imann Lai, and Clara Ma in Section II, “Buddhism and the State,” attend to the political aspect of Buddhism in visual representation. Section III, “Iconography and Traditions,” includes chapters by Sakiko Takahashi, Suijun Ra, and Tamami Hamada that closely study the cross-border transmission of and subtle variations in iconography and style of specific Buddhist deities, notably deities of esoteric strands that include the Thousand-Armed Avalokiteśvara (Bodhisattva of Compassion).

Author : Dietrich Seckel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Art of Buddhism by Dietrich Seckel Pdf