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Buddhist pilgrim-monks as agents of cultural and artistic transmission : the international Buddhist art style in East Asia, ca. 645-770 /
In the mid-seventh century, a class of Buddhist pilgrim-monks disseminated an art style in China, Japan, and Korea that was uniform in both iconography and formal properties. Traveling between the courts and religious centers of the region, these pilgrim-monks played a powerful role in this proto-co...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Singapore :
NUS Press,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Half title page; Full title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Maps and Table; Note to the Reader; Foreword; Preface; Abbreviations; Dynastic Chronology of Historical East Asia up to the Tenth Century; Rulers of China and Japan, Seventh and Eighth Centuries; Introduction; Part 1
- Xuanzang and His Fellow Buddhist Pilgrims and Missionaries, ca. 645-710; Chapter 1
- Xuanzang and His Image-Making Activities; Chapter 2
- Genesis of the Bejweled Buddha in Earth-Touching Gesture; Part 2
- Doji and His Contemporaries, ca. 710-45
- Chapter 3
- Doji's Activities in China and JapanChapter 4
- The Rebuilding of Daianji; Part 3
- Completion of Todaiji and Jianzhen's Travels to Japan, ca. 745-70; Chapter 5
- The Art of Avata.msaka Buddhism at the Courts of Wu Zhao and Shomu/Komyo; Chapter 6
- Jianzhen's Travels to Japan and the Building of Toshodaiji; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index