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Gandhara
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ISBN: 9783805339162 Year: 2008 Publisher: Mainz Verlag Philipp von Zabern

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The Art of Buddhism : an introduction to its history & meaning
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ISBN: 9781590306703 9781590305942 Year: 2008 Publisher: Boston Londres Shambhala

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"As its teachings spread from the Indian subcontinent in all directions across Asia, Buddhism influenced every culture it touched--from Afghanistan to Korea, from Mongolia to Java. Buddhist art is a radiant reflection of the encounter of the Buddha's teachings with the diverse civilizations that came under their sway. It is also an intriguing visual record of the evolution of Buddhist practice and philosophy over a period of more than two millennia. More than two hundred photographs provide the visual context for this tour of the world of Buddhist art. Included in the rich variety of forms are architecture and monumental art, statuary, paintings, calligraphy, fresco, brushwork, and textile arts. Denise Leidy's guide is the perfect introductory text for all those intrigued by this splendid aesthetic tradition. It is also an essential resource for all who seek to understand Buddhist art as teaching."--Jacket.

Buddhism : art and faith.
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ISBN: 0714114324 9780714114323 Year: 1985 Publisher: London Trustees of the British Museum


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Surviving Nirvana : Death of the Buddha in Chinese Visual Culture
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ISBN: 9882207448 1283016893 9786613016898 9882205828 9789882205826 9789882207448 9781283016896 6613016896 9789622091252 9622091253 Year: 2010 Publisher: Hong Kong : Baltimore, Md. : Hong Kong University Press, Project MUSE,

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The Buddha's nirvana marks the end of the life of a great spiritual figure and the beginning of Buddhism as a world religion. Surviving Nirvana is the first book in the English language to examine how this historic moment was represented and received in the visual culture of China, of which the nirvana image has been a part for over 1,500 years. --Mining a selection of well-documented and well-preserved examples from the sixth to twelfth centuries, Sonya Lee offers a reassessment of medieval Chinese Buddhism by focusing on practices of devotion and image-making that were inspired by the Buddha


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Flowing traces : Buddhism in the literary and visual arts of Japan
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ISBN: 0691632677 0691603324 1400862949 9781400862948 Year: 1992 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press,

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According to the contributors to this volume, the relationship of Buddhism and the arts in Japan is less the rendering of Buddhist philosophical ideas through artistic imagery than it is the development of concepts and expressions in a virtually inseparable unity. By challenging those who consider religion to be the primary phenomenon and art the secondary arena for the apprehension of religious meanings, these essays reveal the collapse of other dichotomies as well. Touching on works produced at every social level, they explore a fascinating set of connections within Japanese culture and move to re-envision such usual distinctions as religion and art, sacred and secular, Buddhism and Shinto, theory and substance, elite and popular, and even audience and artist. The essays range from visual and literary hagiographies to No drama, to Sermon-Ballads, to a painting of the Nirvana of Vegetables. The contributors to the volume are James H. Foard, Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis, Frank Hoff, Laura S. Kaufman, William R. LaFleur, Susan Matisoff, Barbara Ruch, Yoshiaki Shimizu, and Royall Tyler.Originally published in 1992.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Buddhism and art --- Buddhism in literature. --- Japanese literature --- Art and Buddhism --- Art --- Buddhist art --- History and criticism. --- Acala. --- Amaterasu. --- Anne Bradstreet. --- Arahitogami. --- Benkei. --- Benzaiten. --- Biography. --- Bodhi. --- Bodhidharma. --- Bodhisattva. --- Buddha-nature. --- Buddhahood. --- Buddhism and Christianity. --- Buddhism in Japan. --- Buddhism. --- Buddhist philosophy. --- Buddhist poetry. --- Calligraphy. --- Chion-in. --- D. T. Suzuki. --- Deity. --- Demonology. --- Devadatta. --- Dogen. --- Earl Miner. --- Edo period. --- Esoteric Buddhism. --- Fujiwara. --- Gagaku. --- Gautama Buddha. --- Genji Monogatari Emaki. --- Genshin. --- Gongen. --- Guanyin. --- Hachiman. --- Hagiography. --- Hayashi Razan. --- Honji suijaku. --- How It Happened. --- Illustration. --- Impermanence. --- Ippen. --- Iris Murdoch. --- Itako. --- Ivan Morris. --- Japanese aesthetics. --- Japanese art. --- Japanese painting. --- Japanese poetry. --- Kaibara Ekken. --- Kegon. --- Ki no Tsurayuki. --- Kobayashi Issa. --- Kojiro. --- Kokugaku. --- Kshitigarbha. --- Kukai. --- Liminality. --- Literature. --- Lotus Sutra. --- Mahasthamaprapta. --- Mahayana. --- Masao Abe. --- Matsuo Basho. --- Metempsychosis. --- Mircea Eliade. --- Murasaki Shikibu. --- Narrative. --- Nichiren. --- Nyorai. --- Onryo. --- Oracle. --- Parinirvana. --- Parody. --- Perfection of Wisdom. --- Poetry. --- Preta. --- Religion. --- Rennyo. --- Renunciation. --- Royall Tyler (academic). --- Setsuwa. --- Shinbutsu bunri. --- Shingon Buddhism. --- Shinran. --- Shinto. --- Shoshin. --- State Shinto. --- Tachikawa-ryu. --- Taima Mandala. --- Tendai. --- Tengu. --- Tenjin (kami). --- The Tale of the Heike. --- Traditional story. --- Upaya. --- Vipassana. --- Yamabushi. --- Zen master. --- Zoku.

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