Japanese Zen Buddhism And The Impossible Painting
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Japanese Zen Buddhism And The Impossible Painting
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Author : Yukio Lippit
language : en
Publisher: Getty Publications
Release Date : 2017-02-28
Japanese Zen Buddhism And The Impossible Painting written by Yukio Lippit and has been published by Getty Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-28 with Art categories.
Zen art poses a conundrum. On the one hand, Zen Buddhism emphasizes the concept of emptiness, which among other things asserts that form is empty, that all phenomena in the world are illusory. On the other hand, a prodigious amount of artwork has been created in association with Zen thought and practice. A wide range of media, genres, expressive modes, and strategies of representation have been embraced to convey the idea of emptiness. Form has been used to express the essence of formlessness, and in Japan, this gave rise to a remarkable, highly diverse array of artworks and a tradition of self-negating art. In this volume, Yukio Lippit explores the painting The Gourd and the Catfish (ca. 1413), widely considered one of the most iconic works of Japanese Zen art today. Its subject matter appears straightforward enough: a man standing on a bank holds a gourd in both hands, attempting to capture or pin down the catfish swimming in the stream below. This is an impossible task, a nonsensical act underscored by the awkwardness with which the figure struggles even to hold his gourd. But this impossibility is precisely the point.
Zen Buddhist Landscape Arts Of Early Muromachi Japan 1336 1573
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Author : Joe Parker
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 1999-03-25
Zen Buddhist Landscape Arts Of Early Muromachi Japan 1336 1573 written by Joe Parker and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-03-25 with Philosophy categories.
Examining inscriptions on landscape paintings and related documents, this book explores the views of the "two jewels" of Japanese Zen literature, Gido Shushin (1325-1388) and Zekkai Chushin (1336-1405), and their students. These monks played important roles as advisors to the shoguns Ashikaga Yoshimitsu (1358-1408) and Yoshimochi (1386-1428), as well as to major figures in various michi or Ways of linked verse, the No theatre, ink painting, rock gardens, and other arts. By applying images of mountain retreats to their busy urban lives in the capital, these Five Mountain Zen monks provoke reconsiderations of the relation between secular and sacred and nature and culture.
Penetrating Laughter
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Author : Kazuaki Tanahashi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
Penetrating Laughter written by Kazuaki Tanahashi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Art categories.
Offers a comprehensive look at the life and works of the eighteenth-century Zen master, Hakuin Ekaku, including paintings, calligraphy and poetry.
The Relationship Of Zen Buddhism To Japanese Art And Culture
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Author : Paul O. Ingram
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964
The Relationship Of Zen Buddhism To Japanese Art And Culture written by Paul O. Ingram and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with Art, Japanese categories.
Sengai
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Author : Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Sengai written by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Calligraphy, Japanese categories.
To behold it is to encounter that teaching - as fresh for us today as it was for Sengai's students two hundred years ago."--BOOK JACKET.
Zen And The Fine Arts
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Author : Shinʼichi Hisamatsu
language : en
Publisher: Kodansha
Release Date : 1982
Zen And The Fine Arts written by Shinʼichi Hisamatsu and has been published by Kodansha this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Religion categories.
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Visions Of Power
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Author : Bernard Faure
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2020-10-06
Visions Of Power written by Bernard Faure 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 2020-10-06 with Religion categories.
Bernard Faure's previous works are well known as guides to some of the more elusive aspects of the Chinese tradition of Chan Buddhism and its outgrowth, Japanese Zen. Continuing his efforts to look at Chan/Zen with a full array of postmodernist critical techniques, Faure now probes the imaginaire, or mental universe, of the Buddhist Soto Zen master Keizan Jokin (1268-1325). Although Faure's new book may be read at one level as an intellectual biography, Keizan is portrayed here less as an original thinker than as a representative of his culture and an example of the paradoxes of the Soto school. The Chan/Zen doctrine that he avowed was allegedly reasonable and demythologizing, but he lived in a psychological world that was just as imbued with the marvelous as was that of his contemporary Dante Alighieri. Drawing on his own dreams to demonstrate that he possessed the magical authority that he felt to reside also in icons and relics, Keizan strove to use these "visions of power" to buttress his influence as a patriarch. To reveal the historical, institutional, ritual, and visionary elements in Keizan's life and thought and to compare these to Soto doctrine, Faure draws on largely neglected texts, particularly the Record of Tokoku (a chronicle that begins with Keizan's account of the origins of the first of the monasteries that he established) and the kirigami, or secret initiation documents.
Beyond Zen
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Author : Katherine Anne Paul
language : en
Publisher: Giles
Release Date : 2020-03-03
Beyond Zen written by Katherine Anne Paul and has been published by Giles this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-03 with Art categories.
A unique and fascinating visual history of Japanese Buddhist art of the Edo, Meiji and Taisho periods and its appreciation in popular practices through on of the finest collections in the USA.
Zen Buddhism And Muromachi Art
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Author : Ichirō Ishida
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1963
Zen Buddhism And Muromachi Art written by Ichirō Ishida and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with Art, Japanese categories.
The Other Side Of Zen
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Author : Duncan Ryūken Williams
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2009-11
The Other Side Of Zen written by Duncan Ryūken Williams 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 2009-11 with History categories.
"Popular understanding of Zen Buddhism typically involves a stereotyped image of isolated individuals in meditation, contemplating nothingness. This book presents the "other side of Zen," by examining the movement's explosive growth during the Tokugawa period (1600-1867) in Japan and by shedding light on the broader Japanese religious landscape during the era. Using newly-discovered manuscripts, Duncan Ryuken Williams argues that the success of Soto Zen was due neither to what is most often associated with the sect, Zen meditation, nor to the teachings of its medieval founder, Dogen, but rather to the social benefits it conveyed." "Williams's work is based on careful examination of archival sources including temple logbooks, prayer and funerary manuals, death registries, miracle tales of popular Buddhist deities, secret initiation papers, villagers' diaries, and fundraising donor lists."--Jacket.