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The Evolution Of The Buddha Image
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Author : Asia Society
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
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The Evolution Of The Buddha Image
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Author : Benjamin Rowland
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1963
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The Buddha Image
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Author : Yuvraj Krishan
language : en
Publisher: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
Release Date : 1996
The Buddha Image written by Yuvraj Krishan and has been published by Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Art categories.
Illustrations: 247 b/w illustrations Description: This book deals with crucial though controversial questions in Buddhist art: the origin of the Buddha image and the iconography of the Buddha images. The earliest Buddhist art of Sanchi and Bharhut is aniconic : The Buddha is represented in symbols only. In the later Buddhist art of Gandhara and Mathura, the Buddha is represented in human form: he is the principal subject of sculptural art. The book seeks to explore the geographical area in which the image of the Buddha first emerged and whether the Buddhist doctrines-Hinayana or Mahayana-had anything to do with this transformation. The Buddha image, as developed eventually at Sarnath, became the model for the Buddha images in whole of Asia, south-east, central and eastern Asia. The iconographic features of the Buddha image are superficially an aberration, being in apparent conflict with the doctrine. The Buddha had cut off his hair at the time of his renunciation; the rules of the order enjoin that a monk must be tonsured and must discard and eschew all riches. However, in his images, the Buddha has hair on his head; later he is also endowed with a crown and jewels. After an exhaustive examination of the views of various scholars, the book answers these questions and resolves the controversies on the basis of literary, numismatic and epigraphic sources. More importantly it makes use of the valuable evidence from the contemporaneous Jaina art : Aniconism of early Jaina art and the iconographic features of Jaina images. The implications of this study are also important : Does India owe idolatry to Buddhism? Was this of foreign inspiration? Was the Buddha image fashioned after the Vedic Brahma and whether the Buddha's usnisa and Buddhist art motifs are rooted in the Vedic tradition? The book is profusely illustrated and provides rich and stimulating fare to students of Indian art in general and of Buddhist art in particular.
Lao Buddha
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Author : Somkiart Lopetcharat
language : en
Publisher: Art Media Resources
Release Date : 2000
Lao Buddha written by Somkiart Lopetcharat and has been published by Art Media Resources this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Art categories.
This book discussed the origins of the art of Lao and Thai Buddha images cast in the Lanna periods, usually called "Chiang Saen Lao Art." The Lao Buddha images were found not only in Laos but also in Thailand, especially in the upper northeastern region that was once part of the Kingdom of Laos. This is the most comprehensive book available on the subject, illustrated with important pieces from museum and private collections.
Image Problems
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Author : Robert Daniel DeCaroli
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2015-04-30
Image Problems written by Robert Daniel DeCaroli 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 2015-04-30 with Art categories.
This deft and lively study by Robert DeCaroli explores the questions of how and why the earliest verifiable images of the historical Buddha were created. In so doing, DeCaroli steps away from old questions of where and when to present the history of Buddhism�s relationship with figural art as an ongoing set of negotiations within the Buddhist community and in society at large. By comparing innovations in Brahmanical, Jain, and royal artistic practice, DeCaroli examines why no image of the Buddha was made until approximately five hundred years after his death and what changed in the centuries surrounding the start of the Common Era to suddenly make those images desirable and acceptable. The textual and archaeological sources reveal that figural likenesses held special importance in South Asia and were seen as having a significant amount of agency and power. Anxiety over image use extended well beyond the Buddhists, helping to explain why images of Vedic gods, Jain teachers, and political elites also are absent from the material record of the centuries BCE. DeCaroli shows how the emergence of powerful dynasties and rulers, who benefited from novel modes of visual authority, was at the root of the changes in attitude toward figural images. However, as DeCaroli demonstrates, a strain of unease with figural art persisted, even after a tradition of images of the Buddha had become established.
The Origin Of The Buddha Image
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Author : Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
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Becoming The Buddha
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Author : Donald K. Swearer
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2020-07-21
Becoming The Buddha written by Donald K. Swearer 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 2020-07-21 with Religion categories.
Becoming the Buddha is the first book-length study of a key ritual of Buddhist practice in Asia: the consecration of a Buddha image or "new Buddha," a ceremony by which the Buddha becomes present or alive. Through a richly detailed, accessible exploration of this ritual in northern Thailand, an exploration that stands apart from standard text-based or anthropological approaches, Donald Swearer makes a major contribution to our understanding of the Buddha image, its role in Buddhist devotional life, and its relationship to the veneration of Buddha relics. Blending ethnography, analysis, and Buddhist texts related to this mimetic reenactment of the night of the Buddha's enlightenment, he demonstrates that the image becomes the Buddha's surrogate by being invested with the Buddha's story and charged with the extraordinary power of Buddhahood. The process by which this transformation occurs through chant, sermon, meditation, and the presence of charismatic monks is at the heart of this book. Known as "opening the eyes of the Buddha," image consecration traditions throughout Buddhist Asia share much in common. Within the cultural context of northern Thailand, Becoming the Buddha illuminates scriptural accounts of the making of the first Buddha image; looks at debates over the ritual's historical origin, at Buddhological insights achieved, and at the hermeneutics of absence and presence; and provides a thematic comparison of several Buddhist traditions.
Origin Of The Buddha Image
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Author : Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy
language : en
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Release Date : 1970
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The Image Of The Buddha
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Author : Jean Boisselier
language : en
Publisher: Kodansha
Release Date : 1978
The Image Of The Buddha written by Jean Boisselier and has been published by Kodansha this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Art, Buddhist categories.
The Origin Of The Buddha Image Elements Of Buddhist Iconography
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Author : Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
The Origin Of The Buddha Image Elements Of Buddhist Iconography written by Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Art categories.
Two foundational texts, enhanced by a third, "The Nature of Buddhist Art," are concerned not only with providing a language for reading the artistic and linguistic symbols for Buddhism, but also show how these symbols are conducive to self realization, which is the aim of all sacred art. Providing a schema of what is of the utmost value in all the world's great spiritual traditions as they pertain to transforming the understanding life and the spiritual process, clear expositions on the significance of the most profound Buddhist symbols are offered, including the poses, the Lotus (the ground of manifestation), the Bodhi Tree (the Tree of Life synonymous with all existence), and the Wheel (the operation of principles). The portrayal of the "Kingdom of Heaven Within" in Buddhist etymology, iconography, and metaphysics is explored, and this whole cosmology--which would appear to be outward--is revealed to be located within the human heart itself. This work demonstrates that art is not solely for instruction or visual/mental pleasure, but intends to liberate the beholder from the restless activity that obscures reality and inhibits inner peace.