Word embodied : the jeweled pagoda mandalas in Japanese Buddhist art
by
 
O'Neal, Halle, author.

Title
Word embodied : the jeweled pagoda mandalas in Japanese Buddhist art
 
Harvard East Asian monographs ;

Author
O'Neal, Halle, author.

ISBN
9780674983861

Personal Author
O'Neal, Halle, author.

Physical Description
xvii, 292 pages : color illustrations, color plates ; 26 cm.

Series
Harvard East Asian monographs ; 412.

Contents
Performance and iconicity in the mandalas -- Historical and narrative puzzles in the mandalas -- Medieval textual images -- Dharma relics in medieval Japan -- Buddhist reliquaries and somatic profusions -- Conclusion: Creating a salvific matrix of text and body.

Abstract
"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 relics, reliquaries, scripture, and body in religious doctrine, praxis, and art"--Provided by publisher.

Subject Term
Mandala (Buddhism) -- Japan.
 
Buddhist art -- Japan.
 
Words in art.
 
Mandala in art.
 
Painting, Japanese.
 
Pagodas -- Japan.

Bibliographical References
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-282) and index.

Field 805
npmlib 10900656 N8193.3 M3 O54 ysh
 
npmlib 南院 10900656 N8193.3 M3 O54 stc 10920414 11220261 (c.2)


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