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Chinese Wood Sculptures Of The 11th To 13th Centuries

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Author : Petra Rösch
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014

Chinese Wood Sculptures Of The 11th To 13th Centuries written by Petra Rösch and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with categories.

Chinese Wood Sculptures Of The 11th To 13th Centuries

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Author : Petra Rösch
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2007-11-16

Chinese Wood Sculptures Of The 11th To 13th Centuries written by Petra Rösch 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 2007-11-16 with Art categories.

Chinese Buddhist wooden sculptures of Water-moon Guanyin, a Bodhisattva sitting in a leisurely reclining pose on a rocky throne, are housed in Western collections and are thus removed from their original context(s). Not only are most of them of unknown origin, but also lack a precise date. Tracing their sources is difficult because of the scant information provided by art dealers in previous periods. Thus, only preliminary investigations into their stylistic development and technical features have been made so far. Moreover, until recently none of the Chinese temples that provided their original context, i.e. their precise position within those temple compounds and their respective place in the Buddhist pantheon, have been examined at all.In her study, Petra H. Rösch investigates these very aspects, including questions about the religious position and function of the sculptures of this special Bodhisattva. She also looks at the technical construction, the collecting of Chinese Buddhist sculptures in general and those made of wood in particular.She uses a combination of stylistic, iconographical, buddhological, as well as technical methodologies in her investigation of the Water-moon Guanyin images and sheds light on the Buddhist temples in Shanxi Province, the works of art they once housed, and the religious practices of the eleventh to thirteenth centuries connected with them.

Embodying Xuanzang

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Author : Benjamin Brose
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2023-09-30

Embodying Xuanzang written by Benjamin Brose and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Xuanzang (600/602–664) was one of the most accomplished and consequential monks in the history of East Asian Buddhism. Celebrated for his sixteen-year pilgrimage from China to India, his transmission and translation of hundreds of Buddhist texts, and his training of a generation of masters in China, Korea, and Japan, Xuanzang’s life and legacy are the stuff of legend. In the centuries after his death, stories of his epic adventures and extraordinary accomplishments circulated in texts, images, songs, and plays. These mythic accounts recast the erudite pilgrim, translator, and court cleric as a magical monk who traveled not between China and India but between heaven and earth. Beset by bloodthirsty demons, this deified version of Xuanzang navigates the perilous paths of the netherworld to reach a pure land in the west. His purpose is to acquire a cache of sacred scriptures with the power to safeguard the living and deliver the dead. Along the way, he is guided and protected by a mischievous monkey, a lazy pig, a demonic monk, and a dragon horse. This imaginative and compelling tale received its fullest and most influential treatment in the famous sixteenth-century novel Journey to the West. In this engaging exploration of the confluence of myth, narrative, and ritual, Benjamin Brose uncovers the hidden histories of Xuanzang’s many afterlives. Beginning in the eleventh century and continuing to the present day, devotees have summoned Xuanzang and his band of misfit pilgrims to perform exorcisms, guide the spirits of the dead, and possess the bodies of insurgents. Embodying Xuanzang traces the postmortem travels of China’s greatest pilgrim and reveals the narrative and performative roots of China’s best-known novel.

Chinese Sculpture From The Fifth To The Fourteenth Century

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Author : Osvald Sirén
language : en
Publisher: Orchid Press
Release Date : 1998

Chinese Sculpture From The Fifth To The Fourteenth Century written by Osvald Sirén and has been published by Orchid Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Art categories.

This new edition of a classic study on Chinese art history has been produced in two volumes.

Wisdom Embodied

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Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
language : en
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Release Date : 2010

Wisdom Embodied written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and has been published by Metropolitan Museum of Art this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Buddhist sculpture categories.

Chinese Buddhist and Daoist Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art --

Sculpture

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Author : Cleo Kuhtz
language : en
Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Release Date : 2016-07-15

Sculpture written by Cleo Kuhtz and has been published by Encyclopaedia Britannica this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-15 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.

Looking at a work of art, like listening to music, becomes a rewarding experience only if the senses are alert to the qualities of the work and to the artist's purpose that brought them into being. The language of sculpture must be learned. In this in-depth study, readers examine the materials, tools, methods, styles, and practices that are involved in sculpting and many of the techniques that have been used by accomplished artists who have contributed to sculpture as a fine art, from the marble gods of Phidias to the mobiles by Alexander Calder.