Word embodied : the jeweled pagoda mandalas in Japanese Buddhist art
Title:
Word embodied : the jeweled pagoda mandalas in Japanese Buddhist art
Harvard East Asian monographs ;
Author:
O'Neal, Halle, author.
ISBN:
9780674983861
Personal 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.
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)