Iconography Of The Buddha Images In Japan
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Iconography Of The Buddha Images In Japan
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Author : Dwijendra Nath Bakshi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
Iconography Of The Buddha Images In Japan written by Dwijendra Nath Bakshi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Art, Indic categories.
Living Images
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Author : Robert H. Sharf
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2001
Living Images written by Robert H. Sharf and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Art categories.
The essays in this volume focus on the historical, institutional, and ritual context of a number of Japanese Buddhist paintings, sculptures, calligraphies, and relics?some celebrated, others long overlooked.
Behold The Buddha
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Author : James C. Dobbins
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2020-03-31
Behold The Buddha written by James C. Dobbins 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 2020-03-31 with Religion categories.
Images of the Buddha are everywhere—not just in temples but also in museums and homes and online—but what these images mean largely depends on the background and circumstance of those viewing them. In Behold the Buddha, James Dobbins invites readers to imagine how premodern Japanese Buddhists understood and experienced icons in temple settings long before the advent of museums and the internet. Although widely portrayed in the last century as visual emblems of great religious truths or as exquisite works of Asian art, Buddhist images were traditionally treated as the very embodiment of the Buddha, his palpable presence among people. Hence, Buddhists approached them as living entities in their own right—that is, as awakened icons with whom they could interact religiously. Dobbins begins by reflecting on art museums, where many non-Buddhists first encounter images of the Buddha, before outlining the complex Western response to them in previous centuries. He next elucidates images as visual representations of the story of the Buddha’s life followed by an overview of the physical attributes and symbolic gestures found in Buddhist iconography. A variety of Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and other divinities commonly depicted in Japanese Buddhism is introduced, and their “living” quality discussed in the context of traditional temples and Buddhist rituals. Finally, other religious objects in Japanese Buddhism—relics, scriptures, inscriptions, portraits of masters, and sacred sites—are explained using the Buddhist icon as a model. Dobbins concludes by contemplating art museums further as potential sites for discerning the religious character of Buddhist images. Those interested in Buddhism generally who would like to learn more about its rich iconography—whether encountered in temples or museums—will find much in this concise, well-illustrated volume to help them “behold the Buddha.”
Buddhist Iconography In The Butsuz Zui Of Hidenobu
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Author : Anita Khanna
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Buddhist Iconography In The Butsuz Zui Of Hidenobu written by Anita Khanna and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Buddhist art and symbolism categories.
The volume presents the Buddhist iconography of Japan as depicted in the Butsuzozui, a collection of iconographic sketches of various Buddhas that falls under the genre of Zuzo collections of iconic drawings in black and white. Inspired by the Chinese style of paintings called Paihuo or Hakubyo, the over 800 sketches presented here bear reference to the landmark work of this genre compiled in ce 1175 under the title of Besson Zakki and are arranged on the basis of the treatise of the Shingon sect of Buddhism. Butsuzozui presents Buddhism as it has been adapted in Japan, with the collections of Buddhist icons divided into five parts. It contains the list of sources, especially the scriptures. It deals with the Chinese icons of Fudaishi and his sons the laughing Buddhas; sketches on the birth of the historical Buddha, his search, sambodhi and parinirvana; the nine categories of Amida and the classification of the Seven Buddhas of healing (Shichi Yakubutsu). It introduces the amalgamation of Buddhist and the native Shinto deities, a unique feature of Japanese Buddhism. The sections that follow expand the list of the protector gods associated with the Japanese beliefs and the different historical personalities associated with the various sects of Buddhism in Japan. The volume will interest scholars of Buddhist religion and art.
Indian Influence On The Art Of Japan
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Author : Sampa Biswas
language : en
Publisher: Northern Book Centre
Release Date : 2010
Indian Influence On The Art Of Japan written by Sampa Biswas and has been published by Northern Book Centre this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Art categories.
Icons And Iconoclasm In Japanese Buddhism
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Author : Pamela D. Winfield
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2013-02-20
Icons And Iconoclasm In Japanese Buddhism written by Pamela D. Winfield and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-20 with Religion categories.
Winner of the Association of Asian Studies's Southeast Conference Book Prize (2014) Does imagery help or hinder the enlightenment experience? Does awakening involve the imagination or not? Can art ever fully represent the realization of buddahood? In this study, Pamela D. Winfield offers a fascinating comparison of two pre-modern Japanese Buddhist masters and their views on the role of imagery in the enlightenment experience. Kukai (774-835) believed that real and imagined forms were indispensable to his new esoteric Mikky? method for "becoming a Buddha in this very body" (sokushin jobutsu), yet he also deconstructed the significance of such imagery in his poetic and doctrinal works. Conversely, Dogen (1200-1253) believed that "just sitting" in Zen meditation without any visual props or mental elaborations could lead one to realize that ''this very mind is Buddha'' (sokushin zebutsu), but he also privileged select Zen icons as worthy of veneration. In considering the nuanced views of both Kukai and Dogen anew, Winfield updates previous comparisons of their oeuvres and engages their texts and images together for the first time. In so doing, she liberates them from past sectarian scholarship that has pigeon-holed them into iconographic/ritual vs. philological/philosophical categories. She also restores the historical symbiosis between religious thought and artistic expression that was lost in the nineteenth-century disciplinary distinction between religious studies and art history. Finally, Winfield breaks new methodological ground by proposing space and time as organizing principles for analyzing both meditative experience and visual/material culture. As a result, this study presents a wider and deeper vision of how Japanese Buddhists themselves understood the role of imagery before, during, and after awakening.
Explaining Pictures
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Author : Ikumi Kaminishi
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2006-01-01
Explaining Pictures written by Ikumi Kaminishi 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 2006-01-01 with Art categories.
Beginning with the claim that the popularization of Buddhism in the medieval period was a phenomenon of visual culture, Explaining Pictures reexamines the history (and historiography) of medieval Japanese Buddhism. With theoretical sophistication and a full appreciation of the power of imagery to convey and control religious meaning, it investigates a range of aspects of etoki, including the particularly active role of itinerant nuns, whose performances were especially edifying to female audiences, as well as the visual hagiography of the reputed founder of Japanese Buddhism, the pictorial projections of Buddhist paradise and hell, and the explanation, through visual imagery, of sacred mountains. Explaining Pictures is the first book-length study in English devoted to the phenomenon of Buddhist art as religious propaganda and pictorial storytelling as a form of popular culture in medieval Japan. A truly interdisciplinary study, it suggests fruitful avenues of discussion between art historians and historians of Japanese Buddhism. Scholars and students with an interest in Japanese Buddhism, art, and social and cultural history will find its examination of significant issues fresh and stimulating. It will also find an appreciative audience among those concerned with the relationship between art and religion, the mechanics of proselytization, and Asian visual culture.
Iconography Of The Bodhisattva Bosatsu Images In Japan And India
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Author : Dwijendra Nath Bakshi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
Iconography Of The Bodhisattva Bosatsu Images In Japan And India written by Dwijendra Nath Bakshi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Art, Indic categories.
On the Mahayana Buddhist tradition and Buddhist iconography in Japan and India; based on the author's researches in Japan.
Enlightenment Embodied
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Author : Hiromitsu Washizuka
language : en
Publisher: Japan Society Gallery
Release Date : 1997
Enlightenment Embodied written by Hiromitsu Washizuka and has been published by Japan Society Gallery this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Art categories.
Catalog of the first exhibition in the US to emphasize on the connection between the aesthetic considerations and construction techniques of Japanese Buddhist sculptors.
Iconography Of The Buddha Images In Japan
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Author : Dwijendra Nath Bakshi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
Iconography Of The Buddha Images In Japan written by Dwijendra Nath Bakshi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Art, Buddhist categories.