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Author : Angela Falco Howard
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004646558
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book The Imagery of the Cosmological Buddha written by Angela Falco Howard and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-14 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Angela Howard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 541 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (956 download)
Download or read book Imagery Of Cosmological Buddha. (Volumes I-III) (China, Japan). written by Angela Howard and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : W. Randolph Kloetzli
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788120804630
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Buddhist Cosmology written by W. Randolph Kloetzli and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disagreements concerning the nature and extent of the universe constitute a focus of theological debate which permeates buddhism at every level. While there have been numerous attempts to catalogue the details of the Buddhist cosmologies, none has attempted a general interpretation of their underlying intention. This work attempts to begin the process of interpreting the major phases of Buddhist Cosmological speculation by seeing in them various dramas of salvation tailored to the philosophical and theological predilections of their respective traditions. To a large extent, this interpretation relies on an examination of continuities between the Buddhist cosmologies and those of the hellenistic world as a whole. In the course of this study, two major cosmological traditions emerge; those which rely on metaphors of time and those which rely on metaphors of time and those which rely on metaphors of space. The former are associated with the Hinayana and the latter with the Mahayana forms of Buddhism. Each draws on images of motion and light to articulate its vision of the drama of salvation.
Author : Eric Huntington
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295744073
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (957 download)
Download or read book Creating the Universe written by Eric Huntington and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2019-01-20 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buddhist representations of the cosmos across nearly two thousand years of history in Tibet, Nepal, and India show that cosmology is a rich language for the expression of diverse religious ideas, with cosmological thinking at the center of Buddhist thought, art, and practice. In�Creating the Universe,�Eric Huntington presents examples of visual art and architecture, primary texts, ritual ideologies, and material practices�accompanied by extensive explanatory diagrams�to reveal the immense complexity of cosmological thinking in Himalayan Buddhism. Employing comparisons across function, medium, culture, and history, he exposes cosmology as a fundamental mode of engagement with numerous aspects of religion, from preliminary lessons to the highest rituals for enlightenment. This wide-ranging work will interest scholars and students of many fields, including Buddhist studies, religious studies, art history, and area studies.
Author : Jackie Menzies
Publisher : Art Gallery Nsw
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Buddha written by Jackie Menzies and published by Art Gallery Nsw. This book was released on 2001 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jackie Menzies provides illustrations of paintings, sculpture, metalwork, manuscripts, mandalas, and textiles, with images that range from early Indian sculptures to Japanese and Chinese scrolls, from a Tibetan tangka to a contemporary set of panels created from digital media. Each image is explained, and longer essays by authorities in the field discuss such topics as the life of Buddha, Buddhist cosmology, Buddha Lands, and Buddhas of the past, present and future.
Author : Sangharakshita (Bhikshu)
Publisher : Windhorse Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780904766592
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (665 download)
Download or read book The Drama of Cosmic Enlightenment written by Sangharakshita (Bhikshu) and published by Windhorse Publications. This book was released on 1993 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An image or story can mysteriously convey a sense of truth that the most convincing intellectual argument cannot. In the White Lotus Sutra, bursting with symbols, imagery and myths, we meet the Buddha as a story-teller. Indeed, this sutra tells the greatest of all stories, that of human life and human potential. This great story takes the cosmos as its stage and all sentient beings as its players, yet within it lie many tales that address aspects of our lives or personalities. This delightfully illustrated commentary on one of the most influential, revered and well-loved Buddhist scriptures brings these stories vividly to life and shows how they relate to our own spiritual quest.
Author : Sangharakshita
Publisher : Windhorse Publications
ISBN 13 : 190931434X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Drama of Cosmic Enlightenment written by Sangharakshita and published by Windhorse Publications. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the White Lotus Sutra, bursting with symbols, imagery and myths, we meet the Buddha as a story-teller. This sutra tells the greatest of all stories, that of human life and human potential. This great story takes the cosmos as its stage and all sentient beings as its players. This delightfully illustrated commentary on one of the most influential, revered and well-loved Buddhist scriptures brings these stories vividly to life and shows how they relate to our own spiritual quest.
Author : Doris Meth Srinivasan
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004644970
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Many Heads, Arms and Eyes written by Doris Meth Srinivasan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1997-09-01 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the first things that strike the Western viewer of Indian art is the multiplicity of heads, arms and eyes. This convention grows out of imagery conceived by Vedic sages to explain creation. This book for the first time investigates into the meaning of this convention. The author concentrates on its origins in Hindu art and on preceding textual references to the phenomenon of multiplicity. The first part establishes a general definition for the convention. Examination of all Brahmanical literature up to, and sometimes beyond, the 1st - 3rd century A.D., adds more information to this basic definition. The second part applies this literary information mainly to icons of the Yaksa, Śiva, Vāsudeva-Kṛsṇa and the Goddess, and indicates how Brahmanical cultural norms, exemplified in Mathurā, can transmit textual symbols. Both Part I and Part II provide iconic modules and a methodology to generate interpretations for icons with this remarkable feature through the Gupta age.
Author : W. Randolph Kloetzli
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788120837119
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (371 download)
Download or read book Buddhist Cosmology written by W. Randolph Kloetzli and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ben Meulenbeld
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789074597449
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (974 download)
Download or read book Buddhist Symbolism in Tibetan Thangkas written by Ben Meulenbeld and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thangka is a way for Tibetan Buddhist monks to bring the life and teachings of the Buddha to the people through the visual medium of paint. These paintings were rolled up and taken on journeys, used as traveling altars, or hung when certain deitieswere honored. Meulenbeld takes us through 37 thangkas that present a pictorial journey of the life of Buddha, Siddhartha Guatama, and the evolution of Tibetan Buddhism. 37 color plates. Glossary. Bibliography. Index.
Author : Michelle C. Wang
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004360409
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Maṇḍalas in the Making written by Michelle C. Wang and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-12-18 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the Maṇḍala of Eight Great Bodhisattvas during the Tibetan (786–848) and post-Tibetan Guiyijun (848–1036) periods at Dunhuang, focusing on the intersections between political authority, religious praxis, and visual language.
Author : Hung Wu
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684174031
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)
Download or read book Body and Face in Chinese Visual Culture written by Hung Wu and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditionally the "Chinese body" was approached as a totality and explained by sweeping comparisons of the differences that distinguished Chinese examples from their Western counterparts. Recently, scholars have argued that we must look at particular examples of Chinese images of the body and explore their intrinsic conceptual complexity and historical specificity. The twelve contributors to this volume adopt a middle position. They agree that Chinese images are conditioned by indigenous traditions and dynamics of social interaction, but they seek to explain a general Chinese body and face by charting multiple, specific bodies and faces. All of the chapters are historical case studies and investigate particular images, such as Han dynasty tomb figurines; Buddhist texts and illustrations; pictures of deprivation, illness, deformity, and ghosts; clothing; formal portraiture; and modern photographs and films. From the diversity of art forms and historical periods studied, there emerges a more complex picture of ways that the visual culture of the body and face in China has served to depict the living, memorialize the dead, and present the unrepresentable in art.
Author : Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Origin of the Buddha Image & Elements of Buddhist Iconography written by Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Anagarika Govinda
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (251 download)
Download or read book Psycho-cosmic Symbolism of the Buddhist Stūpa written by Anagarika Govinda and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jean Boisselier
Publisher : Kodansha
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
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:
Author : James C. Y. Watt
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588391264
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book China written by James C. Y. Watt and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2004 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the great tradition of publications on Chinese art from the Metropolitan Museum, China: Dawn of a Golden Age will become an essential text for years to come. This book is the catalogue for a major exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (October 5, 2004 to January 23, 2005).
Author : Julie Gifford
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1136817964
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)
Download or read book Buddhist Practice and Visual Culture written by Julie Gifford and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2011-03-16 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing an overall interpretation of the Buddhist monument Borobudur in Indonesia, this book looks at Mahayana Buddhist religious ideas and practices that could have informed Borobudur, including both the narrative reliefs and the Buddha images. The author explores a version of the classical Mahayana that foregrounds the importance of the visual in relation to Buddhist philosophy, meditation, devotion, and ritual. The book goes on to show that the architects of Borobudur designed a visual world in which the Buddha appeared in a variety of forms and could be interpreted in three ways: by realizing the true nature of his teaching, through visionary experience, and by encountering his numinous presence in images. Furthermore, the book analyses a particularly comprehensive and programmatic expression of Mahayana Buddhist visual culture so as to enrich the theoretical discussion of the monument. It argues that the relief panels of Borobudur do not passively illustrate, but rather creatively "picture" selected passages from texts. Presenting new material, the book contributes immensely to a new and better understanding of the significance of the Borobudur for the field of Buddhist and Religious Studies.
