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Emanated Buddhas In The Aureole Of Buddhist Images From India Central Asia And China
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Book Synopsis Emanated Buddhas in the Aureole of Buddhist Images from India, Central Asia, and China by : Tianshu Zhu
Download or read book Emanated Buddhas in the Aureole of Buddhist Images from India, Central Asia, and China written by Tianshu Zhu and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the small figures, mostly Buddhas, depicted in the aureole of Buddha images. This motif has appeared in various places in Central Asia and East Asia throughout the centuries. By contextualizing these images in local history and local Buddhism, this book sheds light on issues in Buddhist history and cultural transmission.
Book Synopsis Early Buddhist Art of China and Central Asia, Volume 3 by : Marylin M. Rhie
Download or read book Early Buddhist Art of China and Central Asia, Volume 3 written by Marylin M. Rhie and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-06-14 with total page 1018 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting new studies on the chronology and iconography of Buddhist art during the Western Ch'in (385-431 A.D.) in northwest China, including Ping-ling ssu and Mai-chi shan, this book addresses issues of dating, textual sources, the five-Buddhas, and relation with Gandhara.
Download or read book Buddhism in Central Asia II written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-07-11 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ERC-funded research project BuddhistRoad aims to create a new framework to enable understanding of the complexities in the dynamics of cultural encounter and religious transfer in pre-modern Eastern Central Asia. Buddhism was one major factor in this exchange: for the first time the multi-layered relationships between the trans-regional Buddhist traditions (Chinese, Indian, Tibetan) and those based on local Buddhist cultures (Khotanese, Uyghur, Tangut) will be explored in a systematic way. The second volume Buddhism in Central Asia II—Practice and Rituals, Visual and Materials Transfer based on the mid-project conference held on September 16th–18th, 2019, at CERES, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany) focuses on two of the six thematic topics addressed by the project, namely on "practices and rituals", exploring material culture in religious context such as mandalas and talismans, as well as “visual and material transfer”, including shared iconographies and the spread of ‘Khotanese’ themes.
Book Synopsis The Silk Road Interwoven History by : Mariko Namba Walter
Download or read book The Silk Road Interwoven History written by Mariko Namba Walter and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume Two of the series, The Silk Road: Interwoven History, examines the historyof the Buddhism along the Silk Road from antiquity to the fifteenth century. Theemphasis is on the cultural contacts between East and West as Buddhism spreadthrough many regions, including India, Gandh?ra, the Tarim Basin (Khotan andDunhuang), Mongolia, and China. The authors of the individual chapters approachthis variously through the lenses of art history, archaeology, iconography, astrologicalscience, calligraphy, and literary analysis. Throughout historical times, the Silk Roadserved as the major conduit for the transmission and transformation of Buddhism aswell as other world religions, connecting the major civilizations of East and West.
Book Synopsis The Evolution of the Buddha Image by : Asia Society
Download or read book The Evolution of the Buddha Image written by Asia Society and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Secrets of Buddhist Meditation by : Eric M. Greene
Download or read book The Secrets of Buddhist Meditation written by Eric M. Greene and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2021-01-31 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 400s, numerous Indian and Central Asian Buddhist “meditation masters” (chanshi) traveled to China, where they established the first enduring traditions of Buddhist meditation practice in East Asia. The forms of contemplative practice that these missionaries brought with them, and which their Chinese students further developed, remained for several centuries the basic understanding of “meditation” (chan) in China. Although modern scholars and readers have long been familiar with the approaches to meditation of the Chan (Zen) School that later became so popular throughout East Asia, these earlier and in some ways more pervasive forms of practice have long been overlooked or ignored. This volume presents a comprehensive study of the content and historical formation, as well as complete English translations, of two of the most influential manuals in which these approaches to Buddhist meditation are discussed: the Scripture on the Secret Essential Methods of Chan (Chan Essentials) and the Secret Methods for Curing Chan Sickness (Methods for Curing). Translated here into English for the first time, these documents reveal a distinctly visionary form of Buddhist meditation whose goal is the acquisition of concrete, symbolic visions attesting to the practitioner’s purity and progress toward liberation. Both texts are “apocryphal” scriptures: Taking the form of Indian Buddhist sutras translated into Chinese, they were in fact new compositions, written or at least assembled in China in the first half of the fifth century. Though written in China, their historical significance extends beyond the East Asian context as they are among the earliest written sources anywhere to record certain kinds of information about Buddhist meditation that hitherto had been the preserve of oral tradition and personal initiation. To this extent they indeed divulge, as their titles claim, the “secrets” of Buddhist meditation. Through them, we witness a culture of Buddhist meditation that has remained largely unknown but which for many centuries was widely shared across North India, Central Asia, and China.
Book Synopsis Buddhist Images and Narratives by : Amarendra Nath
Download or read book Buddhist Images and Narratives written by Amarendra Nath and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iconography of images discovered by Aurel Stein, during 1914, from Khara Koto Region, Mongolia, and preserved in the National Museum, New Delhi, India.
Book Synopsis The Image of the Buddha by : Jean Boisselier
Download or read book The Image of the Buddha written by Jean Boisselier and published by Kodansha. This book was released on 1978 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Art of Buddhism by : Dietrich Seckel
Download or read book The Art of Buddhism written by Dietrich Seckel and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Buddhist Pilgrim-Monks as Agents of Cultural and Artistic Transmission by : Dorothy C. Wong
Download or read book Buddhist Pilgrim-Monks as Agents of Cultural and Artistic Transmission written by Dorothy C. Wong and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2018-04-28 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period ca. 645-770 marked an extraordinary era in the development of East Asian Buddhism and Buddhist art. Increased contacts between China and regions to both its west and east facilitated exchanges and the circulation of ideas, practices and art forms, giving rise to a synthetic art style uniform in both iconography and formal characteristics. The formulation of this new Buddhist art style occurred in China in the latter part of the seventh century, and from there it became widely disseminated and copied throughout East Asia, and to some extent in Central Asia, in the eighth century. This book argues that notions of Buddhist kingship and theory of the Buddhist state formed the underpinnings of Buddhist states experimented in China and Japan from the late seventh to the mid-eighth century, providing the religio-political ideals that were given visual expression in this International Buddhist Art Style. The volume also argues that Buddhist pilgrim-monks were among the key agents in the transmission of these ideals, the visual language of state Buddhism was spread, circulated, adopted and transformed in faraway lands, it transcended cultural and geographical boundaries and became cosmopolitan.
Book Synopsis The Buddha in the Dragon Gate by : Nicole Bisscop
Download or read book The Buddha in the Dragon Gate written by Nicole Bisscop and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Buddhism in Afghanistan and Central Asia by : Simone Gaulier
Download or read book Buddhism in Afghanistan and Central Asia written by Simone Gaulier and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-09-29 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Buddhist Art and Thought by : Kewal Krishan Mittal
Download or read book Buddhist Art and Thought written by Kewal Krishan Mittal and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed research papers.
Book Synopsis Chinese Buddhist Bronzes by : Hugo Munsterberg
Download or read book Chinese Buddhist Bronzes written by Hugo Munsterberg and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Buddhism written by W. Zwalf and published by Trustees of British Museum and British Library Board. This book was released on 1985 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Catalog of an exhibition drawn mainly from the resources of the British Museum and British Library"--Preface.
Book Synopsis The Iconography of Chinese Buddhism in Traditional China: Han to Liao by : H. A. van Oort
Download or read book The Iconography of Chinese Buddhism in Traditional China: Han to Liao written by H. A. van Oort and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1986 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The All-knowing Buddha by : Karl Debreczeny
Download or read book The All-knowing Buddha written by Karl Debreczeny and published by Rubin Museum of Art. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examination of a series of 54 miniature paintings from the MAS museum in Antwerp which reveal a meditation process related to Sarvavid Vairocana, the All-knowing Buddha.
