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| Adorning the Buddhas: The Ceremonial Regalia of the Daśa Sthavira Ājus from Kwā Bahā, Nepal | ||
| 作者 | Brown, Kerry Lucinda (著) |
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| 出處題名 | Ars Orientalis |
| 卷期 | v.47 |
| 出版日期 | 2017 |
| 頁次 | 266 - 302 |
| 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 | Kerry Lucinda Brown, PhD (Virginia Commonwealth University), 2014, is an independent scholar of South Asian and Himalayan art. She currently serves as adjunct assistant professor of Asian studies at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia, and is engaged by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts as a museum educator and statewide speaker on the arts. Her work has been published in major museum exhibition catalogues, including Circle of Bliss: Buddhist Meditational Art (2003) and Pilgrimage and Faith: Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam (2010). |
| 摘要 | Membership in Newar Buddhist monasteries includes individuals from the Vajrācārya and Śākya castes who serve as Tantric Buddhist householder monks. Of this population, the ten eldest members of each monastery are known as the Daśa Sthavira Ājus (Ten Elders of the Highest Esteem). Because of their position, these Ājus are the ritual specialists for their communities and serve as exemplars of the monastic ideal in Newar society. This paper explores the ways in which Newar Buddhists at the Kwā Bahā monastic complex in Patan, Nepal, utilize ceremonial dress to reinforce their Buddhist identity and publically reaffirm their ancient Buddhist heritage in Nepal. This study, the first to analyze the Ājus’ ceremonial regalia, provides an analysis of the garments, headdresses, and ornaments worn by these figures to explain the ways in which dress embeds Buddhist iconographic symbolism into Newar visual culture. Additionally, this paper demonstrates that the ritual veneration of the Ājus gives their regalia agency, reinforcing their public, ritual role as living embodiments of buddhahood. |
| 目次 | Abstract 266 Historical Setting: Power and Religious Authority in the Kathmandu Valley 268 The Daśa Sthavira Ājus and Newar Buddhist Monasticism 271 The Ceremonial Regalia of the Sthavira Ājus of Kwā Bahā 275 Public Perception and Ritual Identity: Contextualizing the Ritual Regalia 288 Conclusions 294 Notes 296 |
| ISSN | 05711371 (P) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.3998/ars.13441566.0047.012 |
| 點閱次數 | 190 |
| 建檔日期 | 2023.10.26 |
| 更新日期 | 2023.10.26 |
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