Death of the Buddha and Buddhist icons. -- Strike a chord: the principle of resonance in early East Asian Buddhist reliquaries / Akiko Walley -- "King Aśoka" reliquaries and stupa burials in medieval China / Katherine Tsiang -- Broken bodies: the death of Buddhist icons and their changing ontology tenth- through twelfth-century China / Wei-Cheng Lin -- Kinship and commemoration. Kinship and the commemoration of the dead in medieval Chinese Buddhist monuments / Kate Lingley -- Ancestors, politicians, and patrons: portraits of the dead in nights- and tenth-century Dunhuang Mogao Caves / Madeleine Boucher -- Tomb and cave: reconstructing the commemorative space of the death of Cao Yijin / Liu Cong -- Filial piety and politics. Rethinking patronage and filial piety at Sŏkkuram and Pulguksa in Kyŏngju, Korea / Sun-ah Choi -- Pagodas for the deceased: the intersectionn of Buddhism and funerary art in unified Silla / Youn-mi Kim -- Female bodily sacrifice and the absence of men: representing filial offspring in Song, Jin, and Liao tombs / Winston Kyan -- Constructing ritual space. A landscape fit for the great Buddhas: on cliff tombs and Buddhist cave temples in Leshan / Sonya S. Lee -- Hall of the underground palace of the Tianfeng Pagoda: changing form, function, and meaning of reliquary space in southern Song China / Seunghye Lee -- "How grand are the uses of texts!": visions of paperwork in the water-land retreat / Philip E. Bloom.
Summary:
"Refiguring East Asian Religious Art consists of twelve chapters organized in four sections, titled "Death of the Buddha and Buddhist Icons," "Kinship and Commemoration," "Filial Piety and Politics," and "Constructing Ritual Space." Instead of designating self-contained entities, these subtitles point to four general themes of the volume, around which the authors address interrelated issues from different perspectives. Co-editors Paul Copp and Wu Hung have brought together these essays (richly illustrated with images and photos) by leading scholars to compose an outstanding text. This book reflects on the roles that the integration and interpenetration of Buddhist devotion and ancestor veneration played in creating images, objects, and architectural forms in premodern East Asia. These reflections are occasioned by specific historical cases, not motivated by abstract theoretical agendas. The case analyses, in turn, revolve in various degrees around the phenomenon and concept of death, whether the passing of the Buddha, the departure of family members, or the destruction of religious icons"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
University of Chicago Center for the art of East Asia symposia series
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