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Asian Religions and Cultures Ser.: Living Images : Japanese Buddhist Icons in Context by Elizabeth Horton Sharf (2002, Hardcover)

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Language: English. Number of Pages: 288. Weight: 1.25 lbs. Publication Date: 2002-01-10. Publisher: Stanford University Press.

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Buddhist images are ubiquitous in Japan, yet they are rarely accorded much attention in studies of Buddhist monastic traditions. Scholars of religion tend to regard Buddhist images as mere symbols or representations of religious ideals, commemorations of saints and patriarchs, ancillary aids to meditative practice, or the focus of lay piety. Art historians approach these images as works of art suitable for stylistic and iconographic analysis. Yet neither of these groups of scholars has adequately appreciated the centrality and significance of images and image worship in Japanese monastic practice. The essays in this volume focus on the historical, institutional, and ritual context of a number of Japanese Buddhist paintings, sculptures, calligraphies, and relics-some celebrated, others long overlooked. Robert H. Sharf's introduction examines the reasons for the marginalization of images by modern Buddhist apologists and Western scholars alike, tackling the thorny question of whether Buddhists were in fact idolators. The essays by Paul Groner and Karen Brock document and explicate the crucial role that sacred images played in the lives of two eminent medieval clerics, Eison and Myoe. James Dobbins looks at Shin representations of Shinran, founder of the Shin school of Pure Land Buddhism, and finds that early Shin piety was centered as much on Shinran and his images as on the Buddha Amida himself. Robert H. Sharf's essay on the use of Tantric mandalas reveals that, contrary to received opinion, such mandalas were not used as aids to ritual visualization but rather as vivified entities whose presence ensured the efficacy of the rite. In each case, the authors find that the images were treated, by elite monks and unlettered laypersons alike, as living presences with considerable apotropaic and salvific power, and that Japanese Buddhist monastic life was centered around the management and veneration of these numinous beings.

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Stanford University Press
ISBN-10
0804739897
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9780804739894
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Author
Elizabeth Horton Sharf
Publication Name
Living Images : Japanese Buddhist Icons in Context
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Series
Asian Religions and Cultures Ser.
Publication Year
2002
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
288 Pages

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9.3in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
20 Oz

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Bq5115
Reviews
"This small volume is one of the best collections to be produced in East Asian studies in the last few years."— Histoire Sociale/Social History, "This small volume is one of the best collections to be produced in East Asian studies in the last few years."--Histoire Sociale/Social History, "This small volume is one of the best collections to be produced in East Asian studies in the last few years."-- Histoire Sociale/Social History, "It ISA Must-Read for Any Scholar of Japanese Buddhist Art, Doctrine and Practice."-- H-Net Reviews, "This groundbreaking work will change the way in which we study and understand Buddhist images and their functions in Japanese religion and culture. It does an excellent job [including 55 illustrations] of presenting new or little-known material and of contributing a new understanding of familiar material by treating it in an original manner."--Fabio Rambelli, Sapporo University, "This small volume is one of the best collections to be produced in East Asian studies in the last few years."-Histoire Sociale/Social History, "This groundbreaking work will change the way in which we study and understand Buddhist images and their functions in Japanese religion and culture. It does an excellent job [including 55 illustrations] of presenting new or little-known material and of contributing a new understanding of familiar material by treating it in an original manner."-Fabio Rambelli, Sapporo University
Copyright Date
2001
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
Asian / General, Buddhism / General (See Also Philosophy / Buddhist), General
Lccn
2001-020375
Dewey Decimal
294.3/437/0952
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Art, Religion

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