Author: Maxwell SommervillePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Monograph of the Buddhist Temple in the Free Museum of Science and Art
Author: Maxwell SommervillePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buddhism
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Monograph of the Buddhist Temple
Author: Maxwell SommervilleMonograph of the Buddhist Temple in the Free Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania
Author: Maxwell SommervillePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buddha (The concept)
Languages : en
Pages : 47
Book Description
Asiatic Society Monographs
Author: Murōji
Author: Sherry Dianne FowlerPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Muroji, a magnificent temple founded in the eighth century, is known both for its dramatic location and the exceptional quality of its ritual objects and art dating from the ninth and tenth centuries of the Heian period. Sherry Fowler makes extensive use of primary sources to explore the circumstances surrounding the creation and function of the temple's main images and considers why major works of early Heian sculpture were housed in such a remote mountain setting. Employing a multifaceted approach that looks at Muroji's art and architecture in socio-political context, she explores the establishment of the temple, its role in the religious life and power structure of the region, and the ways in which the temple reconfigured its early history to suit its later circumstances.
Hiraizumi
Author: Mimi Hall YiengpruksawanPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684173132
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
In the twelfth century, along the borders of the Japanese state in northern Honshu, three generations of local rulers built a capital city at Hiraizumi that became a major military and commercial center. Known as the Hiraizumi Fujiwara, these rulers created a city filled with art, in an attempt to use the power of art and architecture to claim a religious and political mandate. In the first book-length study of Hiraizumi in English, the author studies the rise of the Hiraizumi Fujiwara and analyzes their remarkable construction program. She traces the strategies by which the Hiraizumi Fujiwara attempted to legitimate their rule and grounds the splendor of Hiraizumi in the desires, political and personal, of the men and women who sponsored and displayed that art.
Architectural Monographs on Tiles and Tilework
Author: Associated Tile ManufacturersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pottery in architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Religious Tourism in Northern Thailand
Author: Brooke SchedneckPublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295748931
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
Temples are everywhere in Chiang Mai, filled with tourists as well as saffron-robed monks of all ages. The monks participate in daily urban life here as elsewhere in Thailand, where Buddhism is promoted, protected, and valued as a tourist attraction. Yet this mountain city offers more than a fleeting, commodified tourist experience, as the encounters between foreign visitors and Buddhist monks can have long-lasting effects on both parties. These religious contacts take place where economic motives, missionary zeal, and opportunities for cultural exchange coincide. Brooke Schedneck incorporates fieldwork and interviews with student monks and tourists to examine the innovative ways that Thai Buddhist temples offer foreign visitors spaces for religious instruction and popular in-person Monk Chat sessions in which tourists ask questions about Buddhism. Religious Tourism in Northern Thailand also considers how Thai monks perceive other religions and cultures and how they represent their own religion when interacting with tourists, resulting in a revealing study of how religious traditions adapt to an era of globalization.
Architectural Monographs on Tiles and Tilework
Author: Rexford NewcombPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Decoration and ornament, Architectural
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Buddhist Temples of Kyōto and Kamakura
Author: Beatrice Lane SuzukiPublisher: Equinox Publishing (UK)
ISBN: 9781845539214
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Beatrice Lane Suzuki (1878-1939) was an extremely well informed and sensitive expositor of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Buddhist Temples of Kyōto and Kamakura brings together some of her writings from The Eastern Buddhist.