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Early Chinese Buddhist Sculptures as Animate Bodies and Living Presences |
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Wang, Michelle C. (著)
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Ars Orientalis
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| Volume | v.46 |
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| Date | 2016 |
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| Pages | 13 - 38 |
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| Publisher | Freer Gallery of Art, The Smithsonian Institution and Department of the History of Art, University of Michigan |
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| Location | Michigan, US [密西根州, 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 | Michelle C. Wang, PhD (Harvard, 2008) is assistant professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Georgetown University. She is the author of articles on changing conceptions of maṇḍalas in Tang China, paired images in Buddhist visual culture, and Buddhist art and architecture in East Asia. She is currently completing a book manuscript titled Maṇḍalas in the Making: The Visual Culture of Esoteric Buddhism at Dunhuang. |
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| Abstract | Miracle tales from medieval China recorded the ability of Buddhist statues to walk, speak, emit light, and even feel pain. Consecration ceremonies, however, emphasized the sense of vision and the agency of the ritual practitioner over the agency of the statue. This essay argues that by underscoring the corporeal agency of animated sculptures, which was manifested both in their extraordinary qualities and in their vulnerability to damage, the circulation of miracle tales enabled a participatory practice in which devotees, monks and laypeople alike, were able to engage in the performative act of writing statues into life. |
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| Table of contents | Abstract 13
Introduction 13
Image Consecration Rituals and the Appeal to Vision 14
Miracle Tales and Sympathetic Response 17
The Sculpted Body in Motion 22
Vulnerability and Materiality 27
Conclusion 33
Notes 34 |
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| ISSN | 05711371 (P) |
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| DOI | https://doi.org/10.3998/ars.13441566.0046.002 |
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| Created date | 2023.10.26 |
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| Modified date | 2023.10.26 |
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