Art Of The Lotus Sutra
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Art Of The Lotus Sutra
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Author : Tamura Kurata
language : en
Publisher: Kosei Publishing Company
Release Date : 1989-12-15
Art Of The Lotus Sutra written by Tamura Kurata and has been published by Kosei Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-12-15 with Art categories.
The Lotus Sutra, one of the principal scriptures of Mahayana Buddhism, is at once a great work of literature and a profound religious classic, containing the core and culmination of the historical BuddhaÆs ageless teaching of compassion and the way to achieve liberation from suffering. For more than fourteen hundred years, since its introduction into Japan early in the sixth century, the Lotus Sutra has been a rich source of subjects and themes for the countryÆs artists. Generations of priests, nuns and lay believers confident in the sutraÆs promise of spiritual reward for those who revere it and pay it homage have made opulent transcriptions of it, fashioned lavishly ornamented vessels for its preservation, and commissioned votive art depicting its narratives and religious teachings. As Art of the Lotus Sutra eloquently reveals, the range of artistic expression inspired by the Lotus Sutra is astonishing: miniature altars, bronzes, lacquerware, vibrant mandalas, wall paintings, hanging scrolls, narrative picture scrolls, and sculptures, as well as embroidered, handwritten and printed copies of the sutra itself. Much has been written in Japanese about the Lotus Sutra and the magnificent artworks related to it, but not until Bunsaku Kurata and Yoshiro Tamura compiled the present book was it possible to bring this material together in a single volume in English.
The Lotus Sutra In Chinese Art
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Author : J. Leroy Davidson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1954
The Lotus Sutra In Chinese Art written by J. Leroy Davidson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1954 with Art categories.
Paintings Of The Lotus Sutra
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Author : Willa Jane Tanabe
language : en
Publisher: Weatherhill, Incorporated
Release Date : 1988
Paintings Of The Lotus Sutra written by Willa Jane Tanabe and has been published by Weatherhill, Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Art categories.
An in-depth survey of the several genres of pictorial art related to the Lotus Sutra, one of the most influential scriptures of Buddhism. The book analyzes the content, style, and import of each work, accompanied by a comprehensive classification scheme.
Readings Of The Lotus S Tra
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Author : Stephen F. Teiser
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2009
Readings Of The Lotus S Tra written by Stephen F. Teiser and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
Specialists in Buddhist philosophy, art, and history of religion outline the major ideas and controversies surrounding the 'Lotus Sūtra'. They also treat its use in ritual performance, ascetic practice, visual representations, and social action.
Shaping The Lotus Sutra
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Author : Eugene Yuejin Wang
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2005
Shaping The Lotus Sutra written by Eugene Yuejin Wang and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Art categories.
The Lotus Sutra has been the most widely read and most revered Buddhist scripture in East Asia since its translation in the third century. The miracles and parables in the "king of sutras" inspired a variety of images in China, in particular the sweeping compositions known as transformation tableaux that developed between the seventh and ninth centuries. Surviving examples in murals painted on cave walls or carved in relief on Buddhist monuments depict celestial journeys, bodily metamorphoses, cycles of rebirth, and the achievement of nirvana. Yet the cosmos revealed in these tableaux is strikingly different from that found in the text of the sutra. Shaping the Lotus Sutra explores this visual world. Challenging long-held assumptions about Buddhist art, Eugene Wang treats it as a window to an animated and spirited world. Rather than focus on individual murals as isolated compositions, Wang views the entire body of pictures adorning a cave shrine or a pagoda as a visual mapping of an imaginary topography that encompasses different temporal and spatial domains. He demonstrates that the text of the Lotus Sutra does not fully explain the pictures and that a picture, or a series of them, constitutes its own "text." In exploring how religious pictures sublimate cultural aspirations, he shows that they can serve both political and religious agendas and that different social forces can co-exist within the same visual program. These pictures inspired meditative journeys through sophisticated formal devices such as mirroring, mapping, and spatial programming - analytical categories newly identified by Wang. The book examines murals in cave shrines at Binglingsi and Dunhuang in northwestern China and relief sculptures in the grottoes of Yungang in Shanxi, on stelae from Sichuan, and on the Dragon-and-Tiger pagoda in Shandong, among other sites. By tracing formal impulses in medieval Chinese picture-making, such as topographic mapping and pictorial illusionism, the author pieces together a wide range of visual evidence and textual sources to reconstruct the medieval Chinese cognitive style and mental world. The book is ultimately a history of the Chinese imagination. Read an interview with the author: http: //dgeneratefilms.com/cinematalk/cinematalk-interview-with-professor-eugene-wang-on-chinese-art-and-film/
The Dharma Flower Sutra Lotus Sutra Seen Through The Oral Transmission Of Nichiren I
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Author : Martin Bradley
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2015-03-28
The Dharma Flower Sutra Lotus Sutra Seen Through The Oral Transmission Of Nichiren I written by Martin Bradley and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-28 with Art categories.
The Dharma Flower Sutra (Lotus Sutra) Seen through the Oral Transmission of Nichiren Daishōnin, translated and interpreted by Martin Bradley: "What is being attempted here is a close study of what it was that made Nichiren realise that the salvation of humankind is to be found within the text of the Dharma Flower or Lotus Sutra. Only at extremely sparse intervals in the course of history have there been a few individuals who have really comprehended what existence is all about. "The message is to devote our lives to and found them on the dimension where existence occurs whose interdependence of cause, concomitancy and effect pervades the entirety of existence and is Nam Myōhō Renge Kyō in Japanese. It is the recitation of the title and subject matter of the Dharma Flower Sutra that makes us realise that the meaning of existence is here and now in each and every moment of our lives and that the white lotus flower-like mechanism is the totality of all the possible reaches of our minds." Martin Bradley
Readings Of The Lotus Sutra
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Author : Stephen F. Teiser
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Readings Of The Lotus Sutra written by Stephen F. Teiser and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Tripiṭaka categories.
The Lotus Sutra proclaims that a unitary intent underlies the diversity of Buddhist teachings and promises that all people without exception can achieve supreme awakening. Establishing the definitive guide to this profound text, specialists in Buddhist philosophy, art, and history of religion address the major ideas and controversies surrounding the Lotus Sutra and its manifestations in ritual performance, ascetic practice, visual representations, and social action across history. Essays survey the Indian context in which the sutra was produced, its compilation and tran.
Shaping The Lotus Sutra
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Author : Eugene Y. Wang
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-08-17
Shaping The Lotus Sutra written by Eugene Y. Wang and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-17 with categories.
Flowing Traces
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Author : James H. Sanford
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2014-07-14
Flowing Traces written by James H. Sanford and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-14 with Art categories.
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.
The Arts Of Japan
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Author : Seiroku Noma
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
The Arts Of Japan written by Seiroku Noma and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Art categories.