意象多重奏【佛經附圖：藏-漢藝術小品】多媒體光碟的設計理念=A Symphony of Imagery : The Concept behind the Development of the "Convergence of Radiance : Tibeto-Chinese Buddhist Scripture Illustrations" Multimedia DVD
藝術教育=art education; 藝術史=art history; 藏傳佛教=西藏佛教=Tibetan Buddhism; 藏-漢藝術=Tibeto-Chi-nese art; 佛經附圖=illustrated Buddhist scriptures; 古籍版本=old books; 數位媒體藝術=art in digital media
Late in 2003, the“Convergence of Radiance: Tibeto-Chinese Buddhist Scripture Illustrations”multimedia DVD was finally released after two years production. Does its main content and artistic form reach the ideal of“scholarly reason, religious feeling, and Tibetan aesthetics”? The DVD itself should give the answer and the user is invited to see for himself. This paper is just written to record the work that went into the production of the DVD: to explain from the viewpoint of art history the concept behind the multilayered imagery of “Convergence of Radiance”and the iconographic meaning of its formal design, especially the aesthetic ideas which shaped the DVD - how the noumenon is made manifest through the phaenomenon in Indra's Net, the Mandala, and the Three Secrets. The writer gives her own opinion and uses the DVD as an example to discuss whether the artistic thought and language of the new media in the digital age can express traditional Buddhist themes and aesthetics and if yes, how and to which effect.
