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Shaping the Lotus Sutra: Buddhist Visual Culture in Medieval China
Eugene Y. Wang
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| #1941399 in Books | 2007-02-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 1.11 x7.14 x9.93l,2.84 | File type: PDF | 536 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A fascinating work by a very thoughtful scholar. The ...|By Chenchen|A fascinating work by a very thoughtful scholar. The book analyzes and uncovers the underlying desire and demands hidden behind the Buddhist artworks in their historical context, thus providing the readers convincing answers to why and how these artworks were made.|11 of 14 people found the following review h||"This is an original, productive approach to the study of medieval sacred space, and the book makes good on its promise to propose new theoretical models to analyze spatial and conceptual continuity above and below ground. As always, Wang's approach is fresh a
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...
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