Shaping the Lotus Sutra: Buddhist Visual Culture in Medieval ChinaUniversity of Washington Press, 2005 - 487 páginas 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, bodily metamorphoses, cycles of rebirth, and the achievement of nirvana. Yet the cosmos revealed in these tableaux is strikingly different from that found in the text of the sutra. Shaping the Lotus Sutra explores this visual world. Challenging long-held assumptions about Buddhist art, Eugene Wang treats it as a window to an animated and spirited world. Rather than focus on individual murals as isolated compositions, Wang views the entire body of pictures adorning a cave shrine or a pagoda as a visual mapping of an imaginary topography that encompasses different temporal and spatial domains. He demonstrates that the text of the Lotus Sutra does not fully explain the pictures and that a picture, or a series of them, constitutes its own "text." In exploring how religious pictures sublimate cultural aspirations, he shows that they can serve both political and religious agendas and that different social forces can co-exist within the same visual program. These pictures inspired meditative journeys through sophisticated formal devices such as mirroring, mapping, and spatial programming - analytical categories newly identified by Wang. The book examines murals in cave shrines at Binglingsi and Dunhuang in northwestern China and relief sculptures in the grottoes of Yungang in Shanxi, on stelae from Sichuan, and on the Dragon-and-Tiger pagoda in Shandong, among other sites. By tracing formal impulses in medieval Chinese picture-making, such as topographic mapping and pictorial illusionism, the author pieces together a wide range of visual evidence and textual sources to reconstruct the medieval Chinese cognitive style and mental world. The book is ultimately a history of the Chinese imagination. Read an interview with the author: http: //dgeneratefilms.com/cinematalk/cinematalk-interview-with-professor-eugene-wang-on-chinese-art-and-film/ |
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The Many Treasures Stupa VISIONARY SIGNPOST AND COGNITIVE MODEL | 3 |
Cave 5 | 6 |
The Many Treasures Stupa Scene in Cave 169 at Binglingsi | 13 |
Two Womens Vision and Threshold Moment | 24 |
A Memorial Scenario | 29 |
Two Northern Wei Stelae | 47 |
The Pivot of the Symbolic Universe | 52 |
Textual Space and Pictorial Reconstitution | 67 |
The Shadow Image | 245 |
The Mirror Image | 247 |
Mirror Hall | 256 |
Cave Shrine as Mirror Hall | 262 |
Mirror and Gateway | 277 |
Mystic Vision | 292 |
Grotto Heaven | 310 |
Chronotope and Heterotopia | 317 |
Imaginary Topography and Protopicture | 68 |
Problems for the Painter | 79 |
Nirvana with a Royal Face | 82 |
A Buddhist Paradise without a Buddha | 102 |
Which One of the Three? Architectural Forms as Moral Choices | 112 |
The Rhetoric of the Formal Design | 119 |
The Circumstantial World and the Numinous Realm | 122 |
The Monastery of Reverence and Love Jingaisi | 132 |
The Yin Family at Dunhuang | 139 |
Two Lotus Sutra Tableaux Two Moods | 141 |
The Daoist Turn circa 700 CE | 146 |
Postmortem Scenario | 151 |
The Patron Familys Agenda | 176 |
The Ritual Space of the Cave Shrine | 178 |
Mapping and Transformation | 182 |
Enchanted and Generative Topography of Transformation | 183 |
Numinous Vulture Peak and the ManBird Mountain | 192 |
The Incantatory Landscape | 206 |
The Talismanic Landscape under the Tang | 228 |
Mirroring and Transformation | 238 |
Pagodas Miracles and Transformation Tableaux | 321 |
The Iconographic Program of Its Relief Sculptures | 330 |
The Buddhas of the Four Directions and the Rhetoric of Time | 340 |
Temporal and Spatial Fiction of the Relic Pagoda | 347 |
Chronotope and Traditional Cosmological Scheme | 353 |
Between Past and Future | 361 |
From Subjugation of Demons to the Amitabha Pure Land | 364 |
Transformation and the Inconceivable | 371 |
Walking and Circumambulation | 376 |
Agency of Transformation | 380 |
Competing Pure Lands | 382 |
The Primacy of the Tusita Heaven in the Longhuta | 386 |
Two Stylistic Modes and Their Implications | 396 |
List of Abbreviations | 398 |
Notes | 399 |
Chinese Glossary | 442 |
Bibliography | 447 |
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Shaping the Lotus Sutra: Buddhist Visual Culture in Medieval China Eugene Yuejin Wang Sin vista previa disponible - 2007 |