Buddhist Practice and Visual Culture

Buddhist Practice and Visual Culture
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 266
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ISBN-10 : 9781136817953
ISBN-13 : 1136817956
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Book Synopsis Buddhist Practice and Visual Culture by : Julie Gifford

Download or read book Buddhist Practice and Visual Culture written by Julie Gifford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-03-16 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing an overall interpretation of the Buddhist monument Borobudur in Indonesia, this book looks at Mahayana Buddhist religious ideas and practices that could have informed Borobudur, including both the narrative reliefs and the Buddha images. The author explores a version of the classical Mahayana that foregrounds the importance of the visual in relation to Buddhist philosophy, meditation, devotion, and ritual. The book goes on to show that the architects of Borobudur designed a visual world in which the Buddha appeared in a variety of forms and could be interpreted in three ways: by realizing the true nature of his teaching, through visionary experience, and by encountering his numinous presence in images. Furthermore, the book analyses a particularly comprehensive and programmatic expression of Mahayana Buddhist visual culture so as to enrich the theoretical discussion of the monument. It argues that the relief panels of Borobudur do not passively illustrate, but rather creatively "picture" selected passages from texts. Presenting new material, the book contributes immensely to a new and better understanding of the significance of the Borobudur for the field of Buddhist and Religious Studies.


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