Ajanta: history and development
by Spink, Walter M., Bronkhorst, J.
fromHandbuch der Orientalistik / 2
The Handbook of Iconometry (ca. 1687) reproduces, in facsimile, a lavishly illustrated treatise describing the iconometic principles and measurements at the heart of the 17th-century art of Tibet. It includes over 150 drawings of buddhas, bodhisattvas and divinities, 70 script t…
Through analysis of sculptural representations of the Medicine Buddha (J: Yakushi Nyorai), this book offers a fresh perspective on the seminal role played by Saich? and the Tendai school in disseminating this devotional cult throughout Japan during the Heian period.
"The Buddha's nirvana marks the end of the life of a great spiritual figure and the beginning of Buddhism as a world religion. [book title] is the first book in the English language to examine how this historic moment was represented and received in the visual culture of China. …
"Examines the Japanese Buddhist jeweled pagoda mandala paintings, unpacking their revolutionary use of text as picture to show how this visual conflation mirrors important conceptual indivisibilities in medieval Japan. The textual pagoda projects the complex constellation of rel…
"Examines the Japanese Buddhist jeweled pagoda mandala paintings, unpacking their revolutionary use of text as picture to show how this visual conflation mirrors important conceptual indivisibilities in medieval Japan. The textual pagoda projects the complex constellation of rel…
How the Pure Lands are all around us -- The world and beyond -- Tushita Pure Land and the theater of the 1,000 Buddhas -- Padma Sambhava and the five Pure Lands of Bliss -- The Tantric Pure Lands -- A few more Buddhafields, just for fun -- Tushita revisited -- Powa, Niguma, and …
