Shaping the Lotus Sutra: Buddhist Visual Culture in Medieval China

Name: Shaping the Lotus Sutra: Buddhist Visual Culture in Medieval China
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ISBN: 9780295986852

ISBN-10: 0295986859

ISBN-13: 9780295986852

Edition: 2007

Authors: Eugene Yuejin Wang

List price: $60.00

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The Lotus Sutra has been the most widely read and most revered Buddhist scripture in East Asia since its translation in the third century. The miracles and parables in the "king of sutras" inspired a variety of images in China, in particular the sweeping compositions known as transformation tableaux that developed between the seventh and ninth centuries. Surviving examples in murals painted on cave walls or carved in relief on Buddhist monuments depict celestial journeys, bodily metamorphoses, cycles of rebirth, and the achievement of nirvana. Yet the cosmos revealed in these tableaux is strikingly different from that found in the text of the sutra.Shaping the Lotus Sutraexplores this…

Book details

List price: $60.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 487
Size: 6.75" wide x 10.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.794
Language: English