Early Buddhist Narrative Art

Illustrations of the Life of the Buddha from Central Asia to China, Korea and Japan

Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Eastern Religions, General Eastern Religions
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Author: Patricia E. Karetzky ISBN: 9781461740278
Publisher: UPA Publication: April 26, 2000
Imprint: UPA Language: English
Author: Patricia E. Karetzky
ISBN: 9781461740278
Publisher: UPA
Publication: April 26, 2000
Imprint: UPA
Language: English

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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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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