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Author : Angela Falco Howard
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004646551
Author : Angela Howard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:956651992
Author : W. Randolph Kloetzli,Randy Kloetzli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8120804635
Disagreements concerning the nature and extent of the universe constitute a focus of theological debate which permeates buddhism at every level. While there have been numerous attempts to catalogue the details of the Buddhist cosmologies, none has attempted a general interpretation of their underlying intention. This work attempts to begin the process of interpreting the major phases of Buddhist Cosmological speculation by seeing in them various dramas of salvation tailored to the philosophical and theological predilections of their respective traditions. To a large extent, this interpretation relies on an examination of continuities between the Buddhist cosmologies and those of the hellenistic world as a whole. In the course of this study, two major cosmological traditions emerge; those which rely on metaphors of time and those which rely on metaphors of time and those which rely on metaphors of space. The former are associated with the Hinayana and the latter with the Mahayana forms of Buddhism. Each draws on images of motion and light to articulate its vision of the drama of salvation.
Author : Eric Huntington
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780295744070
Buddhist representations of the cosmos across nearly two thousand years of history in Tibet, Nepal, and India show that cosmology is a rich language for the expression of diverse religious ideas, with cosmological thinking at the center of Buddhist thought, art, and practice. In�Creating the Universe,�Eric Huntington presents examples of visual art and architecture, primary texts, ritual ideologies, and material practices�accompanied by extensive explanatory diagrams�to reveal the immense complexity of cosmological thinking in Himalayan Buddhism. Employing comparisons across function, medium, culture, and history, he exposes cosmology as a fundamental mode of engagement with numerous aspects of religion, from preliminary lessons to the highest rituals for enlightenment. This wide-ranging work will interest scholars and students of many fields, including Buddhist studies, religious studies, art history, and area studies.
Author : Jackie Menzies,Art Gallery of New South Wales
Publisher : Art Gallery Nsw
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015056484788
Jackie Menzies provides illustrations of paintings, sculpture, metalwork, manuscripts, mandalas, and textiles, with images that range from early Indian sculptures to Japanese and Chinese scrolls, from a Tibetan tangka to a contemporary set of panels created from digital media. Each image is explained, and longer essays by authorities in the field discuss such topics as the life of Buddha, Buddhist cosmology, Buddha Lands, and Buddhas of the past, present and future.
Author : Sangharakshita (Bhikshu),Sangharakshita
Publisher : Windhorse Publications
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0904766594
An image or story can mysteriously convey a sense of truth that the most convincing intellectual argument cannot. In the White Lotus Sutra, bursting with symbols, imagery and myths, we meet the Buddha as a story-teller. Indeed, this sutra tells the greatest of all stories, that of human life and human potential. This great story takes the cosmos as its stage and all sentient beings as its players, yet within it lie many tales that address aspects of our lives or personalities. This delightfully illustrated commentary on one of the most influential, revered and well-loved Buddhist scriptures brings these stories vividly to life and shows how they relate to our own spiritual quest.
Author : Doris Meth Srinivasan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1997-09-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004644977
One of the first things that strike the Western viewer of Indian art is the multiplicity of heads, arms and eyes. This convention grows out of imagery conceived by Vedic sages to explain creation. This book for the first time investigates into the meaning of this convention. The author concentrates on its origins in Hindu art and on preceding textual references to the phenomenon of multiplicity. The first part establishes a general definition for the convention. Examination of all Brahmanical literature up to, and sometimes beyond, the 1st - 3rd century A.D., adds more information to this basic definition. The second part applies this literary information mainly to icons of the Yaksa, Śiva, Vāsudeva-Kṛsṇa and the Goddess, and indicates how Brahmanical cultural norms, exemplified in Mathurā, can transmit textual symbols. Both Part I and Part II provide iconic modules and a methodology to generate interpretations for icons with this remarkable feature through the Gupta age.
Author : Sangharakshita
Publisher : Windhorse Publications
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781909314344
In the White Lotus Sutra, bursting with symbols, imagery and myths, we meet the Buddha as a story-teller. This sutra tells the greatest of all stories, that of human life and human potential. This great story takes the cosmos as its stage and all sentient beings as its players. This delightfully illustrated commentary on one of the most influential, revered and well-loved Buddhist scriptures brings these stories vividly to life and shows how they relate to our own spiritual quest.
Author : Anagarika Govinda
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Buddhist art and symbolism
ISBN : OCLC:251731784
Author : Ben Meulenbeld
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9074597440
The thangka is a way for Tibetan Buddhist monks to bring the life and teachings of the Buddha to the people through the visual medium of paint. These paintings were rolled up and taken on journeys, used as traveling altars, or hung when certain deitieswere honored. Meulenbeld takes us through 37 thangkas that present a pictorial journey of the life of Buddha, Siddhartha Guatama, and the evolution of Tibetan Buddhism. 37 color plates. Glossary. Bibliography. Index.
Author : Hung Wu,Katherine R. Tsiang
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684174034
Traditionally the "Chinese body" was approached as a totality and explained by sweeping comparisons of the differences that distinguished Chinese examples from their Western counterparts. Recently, scholars have argued that we must look at particular examples of Chinese images of the body and explore their intrinsic conceptual complexity and historical specificity. The twelve contributors to this volume adopt a middle position. They agree that Chinese images are conditioned by indigenous traditions and dynamics of social interaction, but they seek to explain a general Chinese body and face by charting multiple, specific bodies and faces. All of the chapters are historical case studies and investigate particular images, such as Han dynasty tomb figurines; Buddhist texts and illustrations; pictures of deprivation, illness, deformity, and ghosts; clothing; formal portraiture; and modern photographs and films. From the diversity of art forms and historical periods studied, there emerges a more complex picture of ways that the visual culture of the body and face in China has served to depict the living, memorialize the dead, and present the unrepresentable in art.
Author : Michelle C. Wang
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004360402
This book examines the Maṇḍala of Eight Great Bodhisattvas during the Tibetan (786–848) and post-Tibetan Guiyijun (848–1036) periods at Dunhuang, focusing on the intersections between political authority, religious praxis, and visual language.
Author : W. Randolph Kloetzli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8120837118
Author : Julie Gifford
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781136817960
Providing an overall interpretation of the Buddhist monument Borobudur in Indonesia, this book looks at Mahayana Buddhist religious ideas and practices that could have informed Borobudur, including both the narrative reliefs and the Buddha images. The author explores a version of the classical Mahayana that foregrounds the importance of the visual in relation to Buddhist philosophy, meditation, devotion, and ritual. The book goes on to show that the architects of Borobudur designed a visual world in which the Buddha appeared in a variety of forms and could be interpreted in three ways: by realizing the true nature of his teaching, through visionary experience, and by encountering his numinous presence in images. Furthermore, the book analyses a particularly comprehensive and programmatic expression of Mahayana Buddhist visual culture so as to enrich the theoretical discussion of the monument. It argues that the relief panels of Borobudur do not passively illustrate, but rather creatively "picture" selected passages from texts. Presenting new material, the book contributes immensely to a new and better understanding of the significance of the Borobudur for the field of Buddhist and Religious Studies.
Author : Philippe Forêt,Andreas Kaplony
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004171657
This book covers new ground on the diffusion and transmission of geographical knowledge that occurred at critical junctures in the long history of the Silk Road. Much of twentieth-century scholarship on the Silk Road examined the ancient archaeological objects and medieval historical records found within each cultural area, while the consequences of long-distance interaction across Eurasia remained poorly studied. Here ample attention is given to the journeys that notions and objects undertook to transmit spatial values to other civilizations. In retracing the steps of four major circuits right across the many civilizations that shared the Silk Road, "The Journey of Maps and Images on the Silk Road" traces the ways in which maps and images surmounted spatial, historical and cultural divisions.