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Chinese Steles : Pre-Buddhist and Buddhist Use of a Symbolic Form / Dorothy C. Wong.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2004]Copyright date: ©2004Description: 1 online resource (248 p.) : illus., mapsContent type:
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  • 9780824827830
  • 9780824861872
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  • 290
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Dynastic Chronology -- Introduction -- Part I. TRADITIONAL CHINESE STELES AND THEIR BUDDHIST ADAPTATION -- Chapter One. ANCIENT ROOTS OF THE CHINESE STELE TRADITION -- Chapter Two. THE ORIGINS AND RISE OF HAN STELES -- Chapter Three. THE ORIGINS OF BUDDHIST STELES UNDER THE NORTHERN WEI -- Part II. THE FLOURISHING OF BUDDHIST STELES -- Chapter Four. GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF BUDDHIST STELES -- Chapter Five. THE INITIAL FLOURISHING OF BUDDHIST STELES IN SHANXI -- Chapter Six. THE MAITREYA FAITH AND HENAN STELES -- Chapter Seven. THE SHAANXI SCHOOL: BUDDHIST-DAOIST ELEMENTS AND ETHNIC DIVERSITY -- Chapter Eight. BUDDHIST STELES FROM THE GANSU-NINGXIA REGION -- Chapter Nine. MONUMENTAL COMPLEX STELES AND FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS IN MAHA-YA- NA BUDDHIST ICONOGRAPHY -- Chapter Ten. SICHUAN BUDDHIST STELES AND THE BEGINNINGS OF PURE LAND IMAGERY IN CHINA -- Conclusion. BUDDHIST STELES AS A SYMBOLIC FORM -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Buddhist steles represent an important subset of early Chinese Buddhist art that flourished during the Northern and Southern Dynasties period (386-581). More than two hundred Chinese Buddhist steles are known to have survived. Their brilliant imagery has long captivated scholars, yet until now the Buddhist stele as a unique art form has received little scholarly attention. Dorothy Wong rectifies that insufficiency by providing in this well-illustrated volume the first comprehensive investigation of this group of Buddhist monuments. She traces the ancient roots of the Chinese stele tradition and investigates the process by which Chinese steles were adapted for Buddhist use. She arranges the known corpus of Buddhist steles into broad chronological and regional groupings and analyzes not only their form and content but also the nexus of complex issues surrounding this art form-from cultural symbolism to the interrelations between religious doctrine and artistic expression, economic production, patronage, and the synthesis of native and foreign art styles. In her analysis of Buddhism's dialogue with native traditions, Wong demonstrates how the Chinese artistic idiom planted the seeds for major achievements in figural and landscape arts in the ensuing Sui and Tang periods.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Dynastic Chronology -- Introduction -- Part I. TRADITIONAL CHINESE STELES AND THEIR BUDDHIST ADAPTATION -- Chapter One. ANCIENT ROOTS OF THE CHINESE STELE TRADITION -- Chapter Two. THE ORIGINS AND RISE OF HAN STELES -- Chapter Three. THE ORIGINS OF BUDDHIST STELES UNDER THE NORTHERN WEI -- Part II. THE FLOURISHING OF BUDDHIST STELES -- Chapter Four. GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF BUDDHIST STELES -- Chapter Five. THE INITIAL FLOURISHING OF BUDDHIST STELES IN SHANXI -- Chapter Six. THE MAITREYA FAITH AND HENAN STELES -- Chapter Seven. THE SHAANXI SCHOOL: BUDDHIST-DAOIST ELEMENTS AND ETHNIC DIVERSITY -- Chapter Eight. BUDDHIST STELES FROM THE GANSU-NINGXIA REGION -- Chapter Nine. MONUMENTAL COMPLEX STELES AND FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS IN MAHA-YA- NA BUDDHIST ICONOGRAPHY -- Chapter Ten. SICHUAN BUDDHIST STELES AND THE BEGINNINGS OF PURE LAND IMAGERY IN CHINA -- Conclusion. BUDDHIST STELES AS A SYMBOLIC FORM -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index

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Buddhist steles represent an important subset of early Chinese Buddhist art that flourished during the Northern and Southern Dynasties period (386-581). More than two hundred Chinese Buddhist steles are known to have survived. Their brilliant imagery has long captivated scholars, yet until now the Buddhist stele as a unique art form has received little scholarly attention. Dorothy Wong rectifies that insufficiency by providing in this well-illustrated volume the first comprehensive investigation of this group of Buddhist monuments. She traces the ancient roots of the Chinese stele tradition and investigates the process by which Chinese steles were adapted for Buddhist use. She arranges the known corpus of Buddhist steles into broad chronological and regional groupings and analyzes not only their form and content but also the nexus of complex issues surrounding this art form-from cultural symbolism to the interrelations between religious doctrine and artistic expression, economic production, patronage, and the synthesis of native and foreign art styles. In her analysis of Buddhism's dialogue with native traditions, Wong demonstrates how the Chinese artistic idiom planted the seeds for major achievements in figural and landscape arts in the ensuing Sui and Tang periods.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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