The Esoteric Iconography Of Japanese Mandalas
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The Esoteric Iconography of Japanese Ma alas
Author | : Lokesh Chandra,International Academy of Indian Culture |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : UOM:39015058868483 |
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"Indo-Asian Art, Japanese Buddhist expression, understanding and appreciation."
Japanese Mandalas
Author | : Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis |
Publsiher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1998-11-01 |
Genre | : Design |
ISBN | : 0824820819 |
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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.
The Esoteric Iconography of Japanese Mandalas
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Author | : Lokesh Chandra,Chikyō Yamamoto |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Mandala (Buddhism) |
ISBN | : LCCN:72928440 |
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An Illustrated History of the Mandala
Author | : Kimiaki Tanaka |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2018-12-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781614292920 |
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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.
Ma alas in the Making
Author | : Michelle C. Wang |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2017-12-18 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9789004360402 |
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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.
The Matrix and Diamond World Mandalas in Shingon Buddhism
Author | : Adrian Snodgrass |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : UOM:39015020780220 |
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Present book surveys and re-interprets the vast work of traditional and modern Japanese scholarship on the Twin mandalas.
Esoteric Buddhist Painting
Author | : Hisatoyo Ishida |
Publsiher | : Kodansha |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Buddhist mural painting and decoration |
ISBN | : UCSC:32106008092378 |
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Twin Ma alas of Vairocana in Japanese Iconography
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Author | : Ryujun Tajima,Lokesh Chandra,Nirmala Sharma |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Buddhist art and symbolism |
ISBN | : 8177421166 |
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