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| Countless Sands: Medieval Buddhists and Their Environments | ||
| 作者 | Moser, Jeffrey (編) ; Protass, Jason (編) |
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| 出版日期 | 2024.12 |
| 頁次 | 328 |
| 出版者 | University of Hawaii Press |
| 出版者網址 | https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/ |
| 出版地 | Honolulu, HI, US [檀香山, 夏威夷州, 美國] |
| 資料類型 | 書籍=Book |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | 1. Jeffrey Moser is associate professor of history of art and architecture at Brown University. 2. Jason Protass is associate professor of religious studies at Brown University. |
| 摘要 | Countless Sands presents engaging analyses of the diverse relationships between Buddhism and the environment that existed in medieval Asia. Recent years have witnessed a surge in publications across the humanities that advance powerful ethical and political arguments to account for the human failure to respond effectively to global climate change. While the contributors to this volume are attuned to this challenge, rather than present explicit political arguments, they pursue a subtler effort to historicize the environment as a site and subject of Buddhist practice while providing research grounded in rigorous analysis of complex and fragmentary sources. The volume thereby mitigates against the Orientalist, East-West binaries that have long informed the invocation of Buddhism in Euro-American environmental discourses. As the chapters collectively demonstrate, there was no singular, consistently “Buddhist” understanding of the natural world, but innumerable, varied engagements preserved in discrete texts, images, and artifacts. Through specific case studies, the authors consider such questions as: How did premodern Buddhists understand what we today call “the environment”? How did they think about their earth? How, when, and where did the various processes of the earth actually impinge on the practices of historical Buddhists? What kinds of “environmental imaginations” informed specific Buddhist practices? In so doing, the authors explore the connections between the ways in which historical Buddhist communities interacted with their environments and how they understood those environments. In the broader field of Buddhist studies, Countless Sands contributes to ongoing efforts to expand the locus of inquiry from textually based investigations of Buddhist doctrine to a broader examination of the complex and varied place of Buddhism in the lives of historical communities. The book furthers this broader process by casting it in environmental terms and will engage readers looking for models of thought-provoking historical analysis on environmental themes. |
| 目次 | Acknowledgements vii Part 1 Introductions Chapter 1 Medieval Buddhists and Their Environments 3 Chapter 2 Contextualizing the Relationship between Nature and Culture in East Asian Buddhism 14 Part II Matters of Scale and the Environment Chapter 3 Flesh Mountain: Human Bodies on a Nonhuman Scale 55 Chapter 4 Movements and Patterns in Embodied Landscapes for Art 70 Chapter 5 Geomorphism at "The Peak That Flew in from Afar" 90 Chapter 6 The Japanese Image of the Buddhist Earth: Geography, Cosmology, and the Culture of Vision 113 Part III Environments in the Shaping of Medieval Buddhism Chapter 7 Human Places and Cosmic Spaces: Ecological Engagements at Ellora 133 Chapter 8 Riverine Buddhism at Changlu Monastery 163 Chapter 9 Masculine Mountains: Gendered Affordances at Dali's Stone Treasure Grottoes 195 Chapter 10 The Geoaesthetics of Ritual in the Chinese Buddhist Sanctuary of Shizhuanshan 219 Part IV Environments as Mediums of Practice Chapter 11 "Occasions Both Worldly and Transcendent": Sacred Trees in Buddha's India 245 Chapter 12 Vidyārājas and the Articulation of Ecological Interdependence at Cave Temples 260 Chapter 13 Mountains, Waters, and Dharmakāya: Kūkai's Irrigation Projects 281 Glossary 307 Contributors 311 Index 313 |
| ISBN | 9780824895730 (Hardback) |
| 點閱次數 | 1 |
| 建檔日期 | 2025.01.20 |
| 更新日期 | 2025.02.26 |
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