Sacred Mountains in Chinese Art
Author | : Kiyohiko Munakata |
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Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1991 |
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Author | : Kiyohiko Munakata |
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Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1991 |
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Author | : Kiyohiko Munakata |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780252061882 |
An exhibition organized by the Krannert Art Museum and curated by Kiyohiko Munakata. Krannert Art Museum November 9-December 16, 1990. The Metropolitan Muswum of Art January 25-March 31, 1991.
Author | : Kiyohiko Munakata |
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Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1991 |
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Author | : Wei-Cheng Lin |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2014-06-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0295805358 |
By the tenth century CE, Mount Wutai had become a major pilgrimage site within the emerging culture of a distinctively Chinese Buddhism. Famous as the abode of the bodhisattva Ma�ju r (known for his habit of riding around the mountain on a lion), the site in northeastern China�s Shanxi Province was transformed from a wild area, long believed by Daoists to be sacred, into an elaborate complex of Buddhist monasteries. In Building a Sacred Mountain, Wei-Cheng Lin traces the confluence of factors that produced this transformation and argues that monastic architecture, more than texts, icons, relics, or pilgrimages, was the key to Mount Wutai�s emergence as a sacred site. Departing from traditional architectural scholarship, Lin�s interdisciplinary approach goes beyond the analysis of forms and structures to show how the built environment can work in tandem with practices and discourses to provide a space for encountering the divine. For more information: http://arthistorypi.org/books/building-a-sacred-mountain
Author | : Edwin Bernbaum |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 429 |
Release | : 2022-03-10 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1108892493 |
From the Andes to the Himalayas, mountains have an extraordinary power to evoke a sense of the sacred. In the overwhelming wonder and awe that these dramatic features of the landscape awaken, people experience something of deeper significance that imbues their lives with meaning and vitality. Drawing on his extensive research and personal experience as a scholar and climber, Edwin Bernbaum's Sacred Mountains of the World takes the reader on a fascinating journey exploring the role of mountains in the mythologies, religions, history, literature, and art of cultures around the world. Bernbaum delves into the spiritual dimensions of mountaineering and the implications of sacred mountains for environmental and cultural preservation. This beautifully written, evocative book shows how the contemplation of sacred mountains can transform everyday life, even in cities far from the peaks themselves. Thoroughly revised and updated, this new edition considers additional sacred mountains, as well as the impacts of climate change on the sacredness of mountains.
Author | : Wen-shing Chou |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2018-04-10 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 069117864X |
The northern Chinese mountain range of Mount Wutai has been a preeminent site of international pilgrimage for over a millennium. Home to more than one hundred temples, the entire range is considered a Buddhist paradise on earth, and has received visitors ranging from emperors to monastic and lay devotees. Mount Wutai explores how Qing Buddhist rulers and clerics from Inner Asia, including Manchus, Tibetans, and Mongols, reimagined the mountain as their own during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Wen-Shing Chou examines a wealth of original source materials in multiple languages and media--many never before published or translated—such as temple replicas, pilgrimage guides, hagiographic representations, and panoramic maps. She shows how literary, artistic, and architectural depictions of the mountain permanently transformed the site's religious landscape and redefined Inner Asia's relations with China. Chou addresses the pivotal but previously unacknowledged history of artistic and intellectual exchange between the varying religious, linguistic, and cultural traditions of the region. The reimagining of Mount Wutai was a fluid endeavor that proved central to the cosmopolitanism of the Qing Empire, and the mountain range became a unique site of shared diplomacy, trade, and religious devotion between different constituents, as well as a spiritual bridge between China and Tibet. A compelling exploration of the changing meaning and significance of one of the world's great religious sites, Mount Wutai offers an important new framework for understanding Buddhist sacred geography.
Author | : Laurence Brahm |
Publisher | : Red Wheel/Weiser |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2017-04-01 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 0892542217 |
Inspired by James Hilton's 1933 novel Lost Horizon, Laurence Brahm went in search of the mystical realm of Shangri-la, traveling along the ancient Tea Caravan Trail in Yunnan Province of southwest China. Starting in the capital city of Kunming, Braham traveled from Dali to Lijiang through Yi to Lago Lake and to Zhongdian and Deqin and the sacred Kawagebo Mountain. Each region has its own culture and ethnic tradition and is trying to preserve the old way of life while adapting to the economic realities of modern life and tourism. Along the way, Laurence met various individuals#8212including the famous Chinese dancer Yang Liping#8212and learned of a movement of conscious people fighting against the onslaught of modernism to preserve their cultures and identities. They shared with him stories about the misty mountains that stand majestically in this land 'south of the clouds,' and explained how such mountains are sacred to all who live in these regions.
Author | : 柳揚 |
Publisher | : Art Gallery of New South Wales |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Art |
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Author | : John Einarsen |
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Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Religion |
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"The Sacred Mountain" is a symbol revered by people in every religious and ethnic tradition of Asia. The 29 articles contained here celebrate these sacred peaks through prose, poetry, travelogue, historical and spiritual texts, art, and photos, and will be of interest to all students of Asian culture.