Wu Hung & Paul Copp
Publication date:
2019
Publisher:
Chicago : Art Media Resources : The Center for the Art of East Asia, University of Chicago
Abstract:
Within the realm of Buddhist art, death is often portrayed not as the end but instead as a new beginning. Examining how pre-modern East Asians related to death as a broad concept is often just as impactful in the study of their culture and artwork as is the study of how they lived from day to day. This volume of twelve chapters is divided into four sections titled "Death of the Buddha and Buddhist Icons," "Kinship and Commemoration," "Filial Piety and Politics," and "Constructing Ritual Space." These chapters explore the powerful transformations that took place within ancient Buddhist societies when the life an individual came to an end and took on new life in unique forms of religious art and architecture. Dealing with concrete historical examples, these essays not only delve deep into the tightly woven interpersonal relationships, loyalties, and intense devotion that led to the creation of these religious and societal practices, they also challenge both the modern scholar and general reader to see with fresh eyes and refigure how we experience, conceptualize, and understand East Asian religious art.
Table of Contents:
Death of the Buddha and Buddhist icons
Strike a chord: the principle of resonance in early East Asian Buddhist reliquaries / Akiko Walley
"King Aśoka" reliquaries and stupa burials in medieval China / Katherine Tsiang
Broken bodies: the death of Buddhist icons and their changing ontology tenth- through twelfth-century China / Wei-Cheng Lin
Kinship and commemoration
Kinship and the commemoration of the dead in medieval Chinese Buddhist monuments / Kate Lingley
Ancestors, politicians, and patrons: portraits of the dead in nights- and tenth-century Dunhuang Mogao Caves / Madeleine Boucher
Tomb and cave: reconstructing the commemorative space of the death of Cao Yijin / Liu Cong
Filial piety and politics
Rethinking patronage and filial piety at Sŏkkuram and Pulguksa in Kyŏngju, Korea / Sun-ah Choi
Pagodas for the deceased: the intersectionn of Buddhism and funerary art in unified Silla / Youn-mi Kim
Female bodily sacrifice and the absence of men: representing filial offspring in Song, Jin, and Liao tombs / Winston Kyan
Constructing ritual space
A landscape fit for the great Buddhas: on cliff tombs and Buddhist cave temples in Leshan / Sonya S. Lee
Hall of the underground palace of the Tianfeng Pagoda: changing form, function, and meaning of reliquary space in southern Song China / Seunghye Lee
"How grand are the uses of texts!": visions of paperwork in the water-land retreat / Philip E. Bloom
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