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| Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art | ||
| 作者 | Proser, Adriana |
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| 出版日期 | 2010.04.20 |
| 頁次 | 224 |
| 出版者 | Yale University Press |
| 出版者網址 | http://yalepress.yale.edu/ |
| 出版地 | New Haven, CT, US [紐哈芬市, 康乃狄克州, 美國] |
| 資料類型 | 書籍=Book |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Adriana Proser is the John H. Foster Curator of Traditional Asian Art at Asia Society Museum, New York. |
| 摘要 | According to sacred texts, the historical Buddha encouraged his disciples to make pilgrimages to sites associated with his life. As sacred images of the Buddha proliferated over time, it is said that his relics were divided among 84,000 South Asian sites of Buddhist worship, or stupas. This abundance of sacred sites in turn rendered pilgrimage and worship increasingly prominent influences on Asian culture and daily life. Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art employs sacred objects, textiles, sculpture, manuscripts, and paintings to discuss the relationship between Buddhist pilgrimage and Asia’s artistic production. Accompanying an exhibition of approximately 90 extraordinary objects, many of which have never before been displayed publicly, this book addresses the process of the sacred journey in its entirety, including discussion of pilgrimage motivation, ritual preparation, and worship at the sacred destination. Exceptional and visually stunning examples of painted mandalas, reliquaries, prayer wheels, and traveling shrines demonstrate that pilgrims and pilgrimage inspired centuries of artistic production and shaped the development of visual culture in Asia. Through insightful essays by a team of scholars, Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art illuminates artwork’s complex role in Buddhist culture, in which art serves as a form of memory and a bridge to the spiritual world as well as a functional tool with temporal purposes. |
| ISBN | 9780300155662 (hc); 0300155662 (hc) |
| 點閱次數 | 408 |
| 建檔日期 | 2010.12.31 |
| 更新日期 | 2014.12.15 |
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