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Author | : John Stevenson |
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Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780295991627 |
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Vietnam created the most sophisticated ceramics in Southeast Asia. Though they borrowed from China, Vietnamese potters explored their own indigenous tastes and developed their own production techniques. Blessed with the smooth gray-white clays of the Red River Valley, they created pieces that are amazingly light and thin-walled, with skillfully painted, incised, and carved decoration. Two particularly popular decorative themes were dragons (from whom the Vietnamese believed they were descended) and lotuses (considered archetypal symbols of Buddhist purity, because the flower emerges unsullied from the mud). Through a series of judicious purchases that began in the 1970s, the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, has created an extraordinary collection of Vietnamese ceramic art. Essays by three noted experts introduce the collection. John Stevenson, co-author of Vietnamese Ceramics: A Separate Tradition, describes the evolution of Vietnamese ceramics and the contexts in which they were produced, and analyzes their aesthetic attraction. The Museum's senior curator, Donald A. Wood, explains the rich symbolism of decorative motifs found on Vietnamese ceramics. Independent scholar Philippe Truong, of Paris and Saigon, assesses the current state of the field.
Author | : Bhikkhu Silacara |
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Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 2011-06-01 |
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ISBN | : 9781258043681 |
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Author | : Eunice C. Favors |
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Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1987 |
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Author | : Rodger B. Baird |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-08-15 |
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Author | : San |
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Author | : Sīlāchāra (Bhikkhu.) |
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Total Pages | : 105 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Buddhism |
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Total Pages | : 974 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Islamic art |
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Author | : Brian J. Nichols |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2022-08-31 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0824893476 |
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Southeast China is a traditional stronghold of Buddhism, but little scholarly attention has been paid to this fact. Brian Nichols’s pioneering book, Lotus Blossoms and Purple Clouds, centers on a large Buddhist monastery in Quanzhou and combines ethnographic detail with stimulating analysis to examine religion in post-Mao China. Nichols conducted more than twenty-six months of field research over a fourteen-year period (2005–2019) to develop a re-description of Chinese monastic Buddhism that reaches beyond canonical sources and master narratives to local texts, material culture, oral history, and living traditions. His work decenters normative accounts and sheds light on how Buddhism is lived and practiced. It introduces readers to Quanzhou Kaiyuan Monastery and its community of clergy striving to revive traditions after the turmoil of the Maoist era; the lay Buddhists worshiping in the monastery’s courtyards and halls; the busloads of tourists marveling at the site’s buildings and artifacts, some dating as far back as the Tang Dynasty (ninth century); and the local officials dedicated to supporting—and restricting—the return of religion. Using gazetteers, epigraphy, and other archival sources, Nichols begins by tracing the history of Quanzhou Kaiyuan Monastery from the Tang Dynasty to the present, noting the continued relevance of preternatural events like the lotus-blooming mulberry trees and auspicious purple clouds associated with the founding of the monastery. The contemporary monastery is then explored through ethnographic participation/observation and interviews. Nichols uncovers a number of unexpected features of Buddhist religious life, making a case for the fundamentally liturgical nature of Buddhist monastic practice—one marked by a program of daily dharaṇi (sacred text) recitation, esoteric traditions, and ancestor veneration. Finally, he presents an innovative spatial analysis of the Quanzhou Kaiyuan Monastery temple that reveals how different groups engage with the site to create a place of religious practice, a tourist attraction, and a community park.
Author | : Stuart W. Pyhrr |
Publisher | : Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages | : 67 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Armor |
ISBN | : 1588390268 |
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A celebration of more than a decade of collecting by the Metropolitan Museum's Department of Arms and Armour since the reinstallation of its permanent galleries in 1991. Fifty-eight of the most important recent acquisitions are featured in this volume.
Author | : [Alice a. (Parmelee)] Mrs R. Morris |
Publisher | : Wentworth Press |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2016-08-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781361955017 |
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