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"Structure and Subject Matter" at Dunhuang
Author Linrothe, Rob (著)
Source Archives of Asian Art
Volumev.72 n.2
Date2022.10
Pages255 - 272
PublisherDuke University Press
Publisher Url https://www.dukeupress.edu/
LocationDavis, CA, US [戴維斯, 加利福尼亞州, 美國]
Content type期刊論文=Journal Article
Language英文=English
AbstractMichelle Wang's Maṇḍalas in the Making is a groundbreaking treatment of mainly ninth-and tenth-century wall murals at Dunhuang making use of recent scholarship on early Esoteric Buddhist texts, teachers, and themes in Chinese and Tibetan sources. The review article assesses and extends the understanding and definitions of forms of mandala in India and China, recognizing the distinction between textual accounts of internal, visualized mandalas (bhāvyamaṇḍala), and the external, physical objects (lekhyamaṇḍala). Questions concerning the role(s) of the viewer and the purpose(s) of the Dunhuang shrines for the patrons and designers are also raised. For the patrons and designers, the shrines surely provided opportunities for acts of merit-making and expressions of gratitude for good fortune. For viewers and later visitors, were the shrines coded expressions of discursive Buddhist "meaning" and "repentance rituals," as Wang mainly argues, or (perhaps also) locales for gestalt experience of the presence of consecrated deities? The attribution of the visual style to a Nepalese-derived Tibetan mode is also examined.
ISSN00666637 (P); 19446497 (E)
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Created date2024.04.25
Modified date2024.04.26



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