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Book Art in Japanese esoteric buddhism  Mikkyo no Bijutsu  engl   Transl  by Richard L  Gage

Download or read book Art in Japanese esoteric buddhism Mikkyo no Bijutsu engl Transl by Richard L Gage written by Takaaki Sawa and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Japan Christian Quarterly

Download or read book The Japan Christian Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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  • Author : 東京都立中央図書館
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1986
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1002 pages

Download or read book written by 東京都立中央図書館 and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 1002 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Book Publishing Record Cumulative  1950 1977

Download or read book American Book Publishing Record Cumulative 1950 1977 written by R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 1400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Japanese Zen Buddhism and the Impossible Painting

Download or read book Japanese Zen Buddhism and the Impossible Painting written by Yukio Lippit and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zen art poses a conundrum. On the one hand, Zen Buddhism emphasizes the concept of emptiness, which among other things asserts that form is empty, that all phenomena in the world are illusory. On the other hand, a prodigious amount of artwork has been created in association with Zen thought and practice. A wide range of media, genres, expressive modes, and strategies of representation have been embraced to convey the idea of emptiness. Form has been used to express the essence of formlessness, and in Japan, this gave rise to a remarkable, highly diverse array of artworks and a tradition of self-negating art. In this volume, Yukio Lippit explores the painting The Gourd and the Catfish (ca. 1413), widely considered one of the most iconic works of Japanese Zen art today. Its subject matter appears straightforward enough: a man standing on a bank holds a gourd in both hands, attempting to capture or pin down the catfish swimming in the stream below. This is an impossible task, a nonsensical act underscored by the awkwardness with which the figure struggles even to hold his gourd. But this impossibility is precisely the point.

Book Nara Buddhist Art

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  • Author : Takeshi Kobayashi
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1975
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 157 pages

Download or read book Nara Buddhist Art written by Takeshi Kobayashi and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Library of Congress Catalogs

Download or read book Library of Congress Catalogs written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Art Books  1950 1979

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  • Author : R.R. Bowker Company
  • Publisher : New York : Bowker
  • Release : 1979
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1572 pages

Download or read book Art Books 1950 1979 written by R.R. Bowker Company and published by New York : Bowker. This book was released on 1979 with total page 1572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Book Publishing Record

Download or read book American Book Publishing Record written by and published by R. R. Bowker. This book was released on 1977-03-31 with total page 1448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here's quick access to more than 490,000 titles published from 1970 to 1984 arranged in Dewey sequence with sections for Adult and Juvenile Fiction. Author and Title indexes are included, and a Subject Guide correlates primary subjects with Dewey and LC classification numbers. These cumulative records are available in three separate sets.

Book Library Catalogue  A Isl   vol  13  Isr Z

Download or read book Library Catalogue A Isl vol 13 Isr Z written by University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies. Library and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Art of Japanese Tantrism

Download or read book The Art of Japanese Tantrism written by Pierre Rambach and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Art Books

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1979
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1562 pages

Download or read book Art Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 1562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Including an international directory of museum permanent collection catalogs.

Book Library Catalogue  Subject catalogue

Download or read book Library Catalogue Subject catalogue written by University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies. Library and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mount Fuji

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  • Author : H. Byron Earhart
  • Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
  • Release : 2015-07-15
  • ISBN : 1611171113
  • Pages : 286 pages

Download or read book Mount Fuji written by H. Byron Earhart and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated with color and black-and-white images of the mountain and its associated religious practices, H. Byron Earhart's study utilizes his decades of fieldwork—including climbing Fuji with three pilgrimage groups—and his research into Japanese and Western sources to offer a comprehensive overview of the evolving imagery of Mount Fuji from ancient times to the present day. Included in the book is a link to his twenty-eight minute streaming video documentary of Fuji pilgrimage and practice, Fuji: Sacred Mountain of Japan. Beginning with early reflections on the beauty and power associated with the mountain in medieval Japanese literature, Earhart examines how these qualities fostered spiritual practices such as Shugendo, which established rituals and a temple complex at the mountain as a portal to an ascetic otherworld. As a focus of worship, the mountain became a source of spiritual insight, rebirth, and prophecy through the practitioners Kakugyo and Jikigyo, whose teachings led to social movements such as Fujido (the way of Fuji) and to a variety of pilgrimage confraternities making images and replicas of the mountain for use in local rituals. Earhart shows how the seventeenth-century commodification of Mount Fuji inspired powerful interpretive renderings of the "peerless" mountain of Japan, such as those of the nineteenth-century print masters Hiroshige and Hokusai, which were largely responsible for creating the international reputation of Mount Fuji. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, images of Fuji served as an expression of a unique and superior Japanese culture. With its distinctive shape firmly embedded in Japanese culture but its ethical, ritual, and spiritual associations made malleable over time, Mount Fuji came to symbolize ultranationalistic ambitions in the 1930s and early 1940s, peacetime democracy as early as 1946, and a host of artistic, naturalistic, and commercial causes, even the exotic and erotic, in the decades since.

Book Chan Buddhism in Ritual Context

Download or read book Chan Buddhism in Ritual Context written by Bernard Faure and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-09-27 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume attempt to place the Chan and Zen tradition in their ritual and cultural contexts, looking at various aspects heretofore largely (and unduly) ignored. In particular, they show the extent to which these traditions, despite their claim to uniqueness, were indebted to larger trends in East Asian Buddhism, such as the cults of icons, relics and the monastic robe. The book emphasises the importance of ritual for a proper understanding of this allegedly anti-ritualistic form of Buddhism. In doing so, it deconstructs the Chan/Zen 'rhetoric of immediacy' and its ideological underpinnings.