Early Buddhist narrative art : illustrations of the life of the Buddha from Central Asia to China, Korea, and Japan /
Early Buddhist Narrative Art is a pictorial journey through the transmission of the narrative cycle based on the life of the historical Buddha. Karetzky, while demonstrating the various evolutions that the image of the Buddha underwent, maintains that there is an underlying homogeneity of the tradit...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Lanham, Md. :
University Press of America,
©2000.
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| Summary: | Early Buddhist Narrative Art is a pictorial journey through the transmission of the narrative cycle based on the life of the historical Buddha. Karetzky, while demonstrating the various evolutions that the image of the Buddha underwent, maintains that there is an underlying homogeneity of the tradition in the cultures of India, Central Asia, China and Japan. The author, while focusing on the visual representation of the Buddhist narrative, goes into some detail regarding the importance of scriptures in each society, and how the written tradition informed the pictorial. Over seventy photos fill this book, which will be of interest to scholars of art history, Eastern religion and Buddhism in particular. |
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| Physical Description: | xli, 249 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-200) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0761816704 9780761816706 0761816712 9780761816713 |