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Material Practice and the Metamorphosis of a Sign: Early Buddhist Stupas and the Origin of Mahayana Buddhism |
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Fogelin, Lars (著)
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Asian Perspectives: The Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific
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| Volume | v.51 n.2 Fall |
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| Date | 2012 |
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| Pages | 278 - 310 |
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| Publisher | University of Hawaii Press |
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https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/
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| Location | Honolulu, HI, US [檀香山, 夏威夷州, 美國] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | Lars Fogelin is an Assistant Professor in the School of Anthropology, University of Arizona.
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| Abstract | From at least the third century B.C. , Buddhist ritual focused on stupas, stylized replicas of the mounds of earth in which early Buddhists interred relics of the Buddha. Beginning in the first century B.C. , Buddhist monks in western India began manipulating the physical shape of monastic stupas to make them appear taller and more massive than they actually were. Buddhist monks used these manipulations to help assert authority over the Buddhist laity. Employing theories of practice, materiality, and semiotics, I argue that physical manipulations of the shape of stupas by Buddhist monks led to the progressive detachment of the primary signs of Buddhism from their original referents. Where earlier stupas were icons and indexes of the Buddha encased within indexes of his presence, later stupas were symbols of the Buddha and Buddhist theology. This change in the material practice of Buddhism reduced stupas’ emotional immediacy in favor of greater intellectual detachment. In the end, this shift in the meaning ascribed to stupas created the preconditions from which the Buddhist image cult and Mahayana Buddhism emerged in the first through fifth centuries A.D . The development of Mahayana Buddhism and Buddha images signified a return to iconic worship of the Buddha. |
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| Table of contents | Historical Context of Buddhism 279
Signs 282
Stupas As Signs 284
Ancestral Stupas 285
Archaeology Of Stupas 287
Materiality 290
Manipulating Objects 293
Materiality, Semiotics and Early Monastic Stupas 295
Attenuation 295
Implied Mass 296
Relics 299
Summary 299
Mahayana Buddhism And Buddha Images 300
Monastic Retreats in The Fifth Century A.D. 302
Conclusion 304
Acknowledgments 306
Notes 306
References Cited 306 |
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| ISSN | 00668435 (P); 15358283 (E) |
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| DOI | 10.1353/asi.2014.0005 |
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| Created date | 2023.07.11 |
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| Modified date | 2023.07.11 |
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