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Building a Sacred Mountain : The Buddhist Architecture of China's Mount Wutai.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Art History Publication Initiative BksPublisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (344 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780295805351
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Building a Sacred MountainDDC classification:
  • 951.17
LOC classification:
  • AHP
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology of Chinese Dynasties -- introduction. Early Buddhist Monastic Architecture in Context -- One. Building the Monastery, Locating the Sacred Presence -- Two. Entering the Mountains, Localizing the Sacred Presence -- Three. The Sacred Presence in Place and in Vision -- Four. Mediating the Distance to Mount Wutai -- Five. Reconfiguring the Center -- Six. Narrative, Visualization, and Transposition ofMount Wutai -- Conclusion. Revisiting Foguang Monastery -- Appendix 1. The Creation Legend of the True-Presence Icon of Bodhisattva Mañjuśrī at Huayan Monastery -- Appendix 2. Transcription and Translation of the Inscription on the Dongzhang Stone Lantern -- Appendix 3. Transcriptions of Key Passages from Chinese Texts Used in This Study -- Conventions and Abbreviations -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- List of Illustrations -- Index.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology of Chinese Dynasties -- introduction. Early Buddhist Monastic Architecture in Context -- One. Building the Monastery, Locating the Sacred Presence -- Two. Entering the Mountains, Localizing the Sacred Presence -- Three. The Sacred Presence in Place and in Vision -- Four. Mediating the Distance to Mount Wutai -- Five. Reconfiguring the Center -- Six. Narrative, Visualization, and Transposition ofMount Wutai -- Conclusion. Revisiting Foguang Monastery -- Appendix 1. The Creation Legend of the True-Presence Icon of Bodhisattva Mañjuśrī at Huayan Monastery -- Appendix 2. Transcription and Translation of the Inscription on the Dongzhang Stone Lantern -- Appendix 3. Transcriptions of Key Passages from Chinese Texts Used in This Study -- Conventions and Abbreviations -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- List of Illustrations -- Index.

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