Provides alphabetically arranged entries covering topics related to the understanding of Zen Buddhism. Includes entries in the following categories: art, architecture, and iconography; biographical entries; Buddhas and Bodhisattvas; concepts; geography; monastic life; mythology …
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"From the fourteenth through the nineteenth centuries Japanese monks created hundreds of maps to construct and locate their place in a Buddhist world. This expansively illustrated volume is the first to explore the largely unknown archive of Japanese Buddhist world maps and anal…
"From the fourteenth through the nineteenth centuries Japanese monks created hundreds of maps to construct and locate their place in a Buddhist world. This expansively illustrated volume is the first to explore the largely unknown archive of Japanese Buddhist world maps and anal…
Pilgrimage and the Visual Imagination: Text, Image, and the Map of the Buddhist World -- Islands of Meaning: Locating Japan in a Buddhist World -- Antecedents and Afterimages: The Culture and Contexts of Replication -- Hybrid Cartographies: The Buddhist Map and the Tokugawa Worl…
From the fourteenth through the nineteenth centuries Japanese monks created hundreds of maps to construct and locate their place in a Buddhist world. This expansively illustrated volume is the first to explore the largely unknown archive of Japanese Buddhist world maps and analy…
"From the fourteenth through the nineteenth centuries Japanese monks created hundreds of maps to construct and locate their place in a Buddhist world. This expansively illustrated volume is the first to explore the largely unknown archive of Japanese Buddhist world maps and anal…
From the fourteenth through the nineteenth centuries Japanese monks created hundreds of maps to construct and locate their place in a Buddhist world. This expansively illustrated volume is the first to explore the largely unknown archive of Japanese Buddhist world maps and analy…
Orienting space and self -- Cosmos in texts: explaining the blueness of the sky -- Cosmos in the Maala: salvation through geography -- Cosmos in offering: piling a mountain of treasures -- Cosmos in architecture: sacred space and murals -- Portraits of landscapes
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…
