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| Performing Center in a Vertical Rise: Multilevel Pagodas in China’s Middle Period | ||
| 作者 | Lin, Wei-cheng (著) |
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| 出處題名 | Ars Orientalis |
| 卷期 | v.46 |
| 出版日期 | 2016 |
| 頁次 | 100 - 134 |
| 出版者 | Freer Gallery of Art, The Smithsonian Institution and Department of the History of Art, University of Michigan |
| 出版地 | Michigan, US [密西根州, 美國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Wei-Cheng Lin, PhD (Chicago, 2006), is associate professor in the Department of Art History, University of Chicago. He is the author of Building a Sacred Mountain: The Buddhist Architecture of China’s Mount Wutai (2014), and has published on funerary art, Buddhist art, and modern and contemporary architecture. His current book project, Performative Architecture of China, investigates the ways in which Chinese architecture has engaged its users and the meanings enacted through such architectural performance. |
| 摘要 | An unprecedented number of multilevel pagodas were built in China from the tenth through the thirteenth century. This growing emphasis on verticality, in contrast to the usual horizontal sprawl of China’s building tradition, raises questions about what “height” meant in the history of Chinese architecture. This essay argues that the height of the multilevel pagoda was necessarily performative—not so much because the pagoda served as a means of ascending to that height, but because it drew the attention of the faithful. Its levels, centrality, and indeed, height are architectural components that were key to its performativity, through which its religious significance was revealed and its ritual efficacy enacted. Ultimately, we should see the multilevel pagoda as a structured mechanism, or a performing center in a vertical rise, that prompted the faithful to ascend and to circumambulate around the pagoda, from the periphery to the center, if only conceptually. |
| 目次 | Abstract 101 Introduction 101 Chinese Architecture in Terms of Height: The Case for Towers (Lou) 104 The Chinese Pagoda (Ta): A Vertical Centripetal Structure 109 Rising in Elevation: The Pagoda’s Central Axis 111 Two Acts of the Pagoda: Iconography and Ritual 113 The Engaging Act: Ritual Circumambulation 118 The Timber Pagoda of Yingxian as a Conceptual Emanation of the Vairocana Buddha 121 Conclusion: The Multilevel Pagoda as a Performing Center 125 Notes 127 |
| ISSN | 05711371 (P) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.3998/ars.13441566.0046.005 |
| 點閱次數 | 129 |
| 建檔日期 | 2023.10.26 |
| 更新日期 | 2023.10.26 |
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