| Description |
xi, 211 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 32 cm |
| Contents |
The geography of Buddhist pilgrimage in Asia / Robert H. Stoddard -- Outward and inward journeys : an introduction to Buddhist pilgrimage / D. Max Moerman -- The significance of Bodh Gaya / Janice Leoshko -- Bhutan's tiger's nest : a Tibetan Buddhist pilgrimage and popular media / Katherine Anne Paul -- The temple on Mount Suthep and pilgrimage in northern Thailand / Donald K. Swearer -- Buddhist pilgrimage and mountains in China / Chün-fang Yü -- The sacered topography of Mount Wutai at Dunhuang / Susan L. Benigson -- Buddhist pilgrimages in Japan / Ian Reader -- Catalogue. The Buddha and the sacred site / entries by Jacquline Ganem ... [et al.]. The journey / entries by Terese Tse Bartholomew ... [et al.]. Merit, mementos, and sacred bonds / entries by Jacquline Ganem ... [et al.] -- Appendices. Map of Asia : selected Buddhist pilgrimage sites. Map of Asia : major routes for trade and the transmission of Buddhism. Chronology of selected events related to Buddhist pilgrimage / Daisy Yiyou Wang and Adriana Proser. Glossary of names and terms / Daisy Yiyou Wang and Adriana Proser |
| Summary |
"According to sacred texts, the historical Buddha encouraged his disciples to make pilgrimages to sites associated with his life. As sacred images of the Buddha proliferated over time, it is said that his relics were divided among 84,000 South Asian sites of Buddhist worship, or stupas. This abundance of sacred sites in turn rendered pilgrimage and worship increasingly prominent influences on Asian culture and daily life. Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art employs sacred objects, textiles, sculpture, manuscripts, and paintings to discuss the relationship between Buddhist pilgrimage and Asia's artistic production. Accompanying an exhibition of approximately 90 extraordinary objects, many of which have never before been displayed publicly, this book addresses the process of the sacred journey in its entirety, including discussion of pilgrimage motivation, ritual preparation, and worship at the sacred destination. Exceptional and visually stunning examples of painted mandalas, reliquaries, prayer wheels, and traveling shrines demonstrate that pilgrims and pilgrimage inspired centuries of artistic production and shaped the development of visual culture in Asia. Through insightful essays by a team of scholars, Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art illuminates artwork's complex role in Buddhist culture, in which art serves as a form of memory and a bridge to the spiritual world as well as a functional tool with temporal purposes." --Publisher |
| Notes |
Published on the occasion of the exhibition held Mar. 16-June 20, 2010, Asia Society Museum, New York, N.Y |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-195) and index |
| Subject |
Asia Society. Museum -- Exhibitions.
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Art, Asian -- Exhibitions.
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Buddhist art -- Asia -- Exhibitions.
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Buddhist pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Asia -- Exhibitions.
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| Genre/Form |
Exhibition catalogs.
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| Author |
Proser, Adriana G.
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Asia Society. Museum.
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| LC no. |
2009033140 |
| ISBN |
0300155662 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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9780300155662 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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