The Missing Buddhas: The mystery of the Chinese Buddhist statues that stunned the Western art world, Miller Tony

Автор: S. Horton
Название: Living Buddhist Statues in Early Medieval and Modern Japan
ISBN: 1349527963 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349527960
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: A study of the surprising functions of Buddhist statues, which helped disseminate Buddhist beliefs among the populace in Tenth- and Eleventh-century Japan. Using ethnographic data drawn from present-day fieldwork and marshalling ancient textual evidence, Horton reveals the historical origins and development of modern Japanese beliefs and practices.

Автор: Strong John S.
Название: The Buddha`s Tooth: Western Tales of a Sri Lankan Relic
ISBN: 022680173X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226801735
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: With a healthy perspective we can become resilient in ways that not only help us bounce back from stress and tough times, but we can actually deepen in ways which would not have been possible had they not occurred in the first place. The Simple Care of a Hopeful Heart offers a series of brief, accessible lessons in self-care and self-understanding to enhance such possibilities.

Автор: Strong John S.
Название: The Buddha`s Tooth: Western Tales of a Sri Lankan Relic
ISBN: 022678911X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226789118
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Описание: John S. Strong unravels the storm of influences shaping the received narratives of two iconic sacred objects.

Bodily relics such as hairs, teeth, fingernails, pieces of bone--supposedly from the Buddha himself--have long served as objects of veneration for many Buddhists. Unsurprisingly, when Western colonial powers subjugated populations in South Asia, they used, manipulated, redefined, and even destroyed these objects to exert control.

In The Buddha's Tooth, John S. Strong examines Western stories, from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, surrounding two significant Sri Lankan sacred objects to illuminate and concretize colonial attitudes toward Asian religions. First, he analyzes a tale about the Portuguese capture and public destruction, in the mid-sixteenth century, of a tooth later identified as a relic of the Buddha. Second, he switches gears to look at the nineteenth-century saga of British dealings with another tooth relic of the Buddha--the famous Daḷadā enshrined in a temple in Kandy--from 1815, when it was taken over by English forces, to 1954, when it was visited by Queen Elizabeth II. As Strong reveals, the stories of both the Portuguese tooth and the Kandyan tooth reflect nascent and developing Western understandings of Buddhism, realizations of the cosmopolitan nature of the tooth, and tensions between secular and religious interests.