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Author : Oort
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004666658
Author : H. A. van Oort
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Art
ISBN : 9004078215
Author : Oort
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004664319
Author : Henri A. van Oort
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Buddhist art
ISBN : 9004078231
Author : H. A. van Oort
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Art, Chinese
ISBN : LCCN:86229664
Author : H. A. van Oort
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Art, Chinese
ISBN : LCCN:86229664
Author : Henri A. van Oort
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9004078223
Author : Henry Albert van Oort
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Art, Buddhist
ISBN : 9004078215
Author : Marsha Smith Weidner
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0824823087
This collection of essays on later Chinese Buddhism takes us beyond the bedrock subjects of traditional Buddhist historiography - scriptures and commentaries, sectarian developments, lives of notable monks - to examine a wide range of extracanonical materials that illuminate cultural manifestations of Buddhism from the Song dynasty (960-1279) through the modern period. Straying from well-trodden paths, the authors often transgress the boundaries of their own disciplines: historians address architecture; art historians look to politics; a specialist in literature treats poetry that offers gendered insights into Buddhist lives. The broad-based cultural orientation of this volume is predicated on the recognition that art and religion are not closed systems requiring only minimal cross-indexing with other social or aesthetic phenomena but constituent elements in interlocking networks of practice and belief.
Author : Hsueh-man Shen
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824867058
As belief in the Buddha grew and his teachings were transmitted across Asia, Buddhist images, scriptures, and relics were duplicated and reduplicated to satisfy the needs of increasing numbers of the faithful. Yet how were these countless copies of sacred objects able to retain their authenticity and efficacy? Authentic Replicas explores how Buddhists in medieval China (seventh to twelfth centuries) solved this conundrum through the use of traditional methods of replication such as stamping, mold casting, and woodblock printing to create objects that fulfilled the spiritual aspirations of those who possessed them. Setting aside Western notions about the relative value of copies versus the “original,” the book posits Buddhist ideas on what imbues an object with credibility and authority and offers fresh insights into the ways authenticity was represented and reproduced in the Chinese Buddhist context. Each section of the volume focuses on an area of artistic output to provide readers with a thorough grasp of the theological concepts underpinning each act of duplication. Part I looks at the replication of sutras to clarify how the spiritual value of a handwritten sutra differed from a printed one. In Part II, clay tablets, woodblock prints, silk paintings, and cave murals are examined to trace iconographic lineages and uncover the divine identity in each new replica. The chapters in Part III describe in detail the copying of the Buddha’s bodily relics and the endlessly repeated votive act of burying these in stupas. Of particular significance is the visual and textual vocabulary used on reliquaries to persuade adherents to believe in the actual presence of the Buddha concealed inside. Deftly weaving together data and research from several disciplines, including Buddhist studies, archaeology, and art history, Authentic Replicas vividly conveys how replication lay at the heart of Buddhist worship in medieval China, offering a new understanding of how religious belief guided the artistic output of an entire age.
Author : Patricia Ann Berger,Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art,Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0824816625
Author : Karil J. Kucera
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781621967132
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 : Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015056489779
Chinese Buddhist Art provides a succinct yet richly detailed history of Buddhist art in China. It is an invaluable primer for anyone new to the subject as well as a useful source of recent research for experts.
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Denise Patry Leidy,Donna K. Strahan
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Buddhist sculpture
ISBN : 9781588393999
Chinese Buddhist and Daoist Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art --
Author : Yuheng Bao,Qing Tian,Letitia Lane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015060830950
"This interdisciplinary study on the development of Buddhist art and architecture in China from the early period till the Qing Dynasty is in a 8 11 format with 50 photo illustrations, the majority of which have never been shown or introduced to the Western world. This book has been organized so that a brief biography of Prince Gautama (later the Buddha), is first presented, followed by an explanation of the Four Noble Beliefs, and the Eightfold Path which a Buddhist must follow to reach the enlightenment, and finally the Nirvana."
