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Author : Lokesh Chandra
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Esoteric Iconography of Japanese Maṇḍalas written by Lokesh Chandra and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Indo-Asian Art, Japanese Buddhist expression, understanding and appreciation."
Author : Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824820817
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)
Download or read book Japanese Mandalas written by Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1998-11-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first broad study of Japanese mandalas to appear in a Western language, this volume interprets mandalas as sanctified realms where identification between the human and the sacred occurs. The author investigates eighth- to seventeenth-century paintings from three traditions: Esoteric Buddhism, Pure Land Buddhism, and the kami-worshipping (Shinto) tradition. It is generally recognized that many of these mandalas are connected with texts and images from India and the Himalayas. A pioneering theme of this study is that, in addition to the South Asian connections, certain paradigmatic Japanese mandalas reflect pre-Buddhist Chinese concepts, including geographical concepts. In convincing and lucid prose, ten Grotenhuis chronicles an intermingling of visual, doctrinal, ritual, and literary elements in these mandalas that has come to be seen as characteristic of the Japanese religious tradition as a whole. This beautifully illustrated work begins in the first millennium B.C.E. in China with an introduction to the Book of Documents and ends in present-day Japan at the sacred site of Kumano. Ten Grotenhuis focuses on the Diamond and Womb World mandalas of Esoteric Buddhist tradition, on the Taima mandala and other related mandalas from the Pure Land Buddhist tradition, and on mandalas associated with the kami-worshipping sites of Kasuga and Kumano. She identifies specific sacred places in Japan with sacred places in India and with Buddhist cosmic diagrams. Through these identifications, the realm of the buddhas is identified with the realms of the kami and of human beings, and Japanese geographical areas are identified with Buddhist sacred geography. Explaining why certain fundamental Japanese mandalas look the way they do and how certain visual forms came to embody the sacred, ten Grotenhuis presents works that show a complex mixture of Indian Buddhist elements, pre-Buddhist Chinese elements, Chinese Buddhist elements, and indigenous Japanese elements.
Author : Lokesh Chandra
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Esoteric Iconography of Japanese Mandalas written by Lokesh Chandra and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kimiaki Tanaka
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1614292922
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)
Download or read book An Illustrated History of the Mandala written by Kimiaki Tanaka and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone’s heard of mandalas; now we have a uniquely rich history and explanation of their history and meaning. This book is a history of the genesis and development of the mandala from the fifth and sixth centuries, when the mandala first appeared in India, to the eleventh century, when the Kalacakratantra appeared just before the disappearance of Buddhism in India. The 600 years of Indian esoteric Buddhism that concluded the 1,700-year history of Indian Buddhism could be said to have been the history of the development of the mandala. (The Kalacakratantra integrated earlier mandala theories into a single system and established a monumental system unprecedented in the history of esoteric Buddhism. It was thus the culmination of the development of Indian Buddhism over a period of 1,700 years.) The analysis is at the micro level and includes numerous illustrations and charts. Particular attention is paid to proper names, mudras, and mantras that have been overlooked by scholars in philosophy and doctrine, and the author tackles issues that cannot be explained solely from a historical viewpoint, such as geometric patterns, the arrangement of deities, the colors, and their meaning in Buddhist doctrine.
Author : Michelle C. Wang
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004360409
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)
Download or read book Maṇḍalas in the Making written by Michelle C. Wang and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-12-18 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the Maṇḍala of Eight Great Bodhisattvas during the Tibetan (786–848) and post-Tibetan Guiyijun (848–1036) periods at Dunhuang, focusing on the intersections between political authority, religious praxis, and visual language.
Author : Adrian Snodgrass
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Matrix and Diamond World Mandalas in Shingon Buddhism written by Adrian Snodgrass and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Present book surveys and re-interprets the vast work of traditional and modern Japanese scholarship on the Twin mandalas.
Author : Hisatoyo Ishida
Publisher : Kodansha
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)
Download or read book Esoteric Buddhist Painting written by Hisatoyo Ishida and published by Kodansha. This book was released on 1987 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824863119
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)
Download or read book Japanese Mandalas written by Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1998-11-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first broad study of Japanese mandalas to appear in a Western language, this volume interprets mandalas as sanctified realms where identification between the human and the sacred occurs. The author investigates eighth- to seventeenth-century paintings from three traditions: Esoteric Buddhism, Pure Land Buddhism, and the kami-worshipping (Shinto) tradition. It is generally recognized that many of these mandalas are connected with texts and images from India and the Himalayas. A pioneering theme of this study is that, in addition to the South Asian connections, certain paradigmatic Japanese mandalas reflect pre-Buddhist Chinese concepts, including geographical concepts. In convincing and lucid prose, ten Grotenhuis chronicles an intermingling of visual, doctrinal, ritual, and literary elements in these mandalas that has come to be seen as characteristic of the Japanese religious tradition as a whole. This beautifully illustrated work begins in the first millennium B.C.E. in China with an introduction to the Book of Documents and ends in present-day Japan at the sacred site of Kumano. Ten Grotenhuis focuses on the Diamond and Womb World mandalas of Esoteric Buddhist tradition, on the Taima mandala and other related mandalas from the Pure Land Buddhist tradition, and on mandalas associated with the kami-worshipping sites of Kasuga and Kumano. She identifies specific sacred places in Japan with sacred places in India and with Buddhist cosmic diagrams. Through these identifications, the realm of the buddhas is identified with the realms of the kami and of human beings, and Japanese geographical areas are identified with Buddhist sacred geography. Explaining why certain fundamental Japanese mandalas look the way they do and how certain visual forms came to embody the sacred, ten Grotenhuis presents works that show a complex mixture of Indian Buddhist elements, pre-Buddhist Chinese elements, Chinese Buddhist elements, and indigenous Japanese elements.
Author : Ryūjun Tajima
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)
Download or read book Twin Maṇḍalas of Vairocana in Japanese Iconography written by Ryūjun Tajima and published by . This book was released on with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ryujun Tajima
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788177421163
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)
Download or read book Twin Maṇḍalas of Vairocana in Japanese Iconography written by Ryujun Tajima and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
