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Comparing Buddhist Meta-Images: On Representations as Objects, Likeness, and Presences |
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Huntington, Eric (著)
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Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies=JIABS
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| Volume | v.47 |
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| Date | 2024 |
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| Pages | 105 - 171 |
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| Publisher | Peeters Publishers |
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http://www.peeters-leuven.be/
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| Location | Leuven, Belgium [魯汶, 比利時] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Abstract | Meta-images, or images of images, are a remarkable window into the nature of representation as a visual process. Beyond the writings of theoreticians or ritualists, they can provide insight into what even anonymous artists thought of their own creations. This article highlights the significance of meta-images by showing their relevance to one key point of scholarly debate about Buddhist visual and material culture – whether artistic representations of sacred figures should be understood as constructed objects or as living presences. The analysis proceeds in two separate registers of a comparative framework. On one level, looking at single artworks and cultural contexts, images are compared to other kinds of entities with better-known ontological statuses, such as living beings or relics of the deceased. On another level, looking at multiple traditions from diverse cultural contexts together, meta-images are compared with each other to reveal a rich variety in the ways that artworks can be understood in Buddhist visual culture. Detailed investigation across Buddhist history shows greater variety and nuance in conceptions of representation than a simple polarization between object and presence. |
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| Table of contents | ABSTRACT 105
Introduction 105
-Literature review and definitions 107
-Structure, methods, and thesis 109
Portraying the materiality and constructedness of images in early first millennium South Asian sculptures 111
-Gandhāra 112
-Andhra Pradesh 115
Slab reliefs 117
Gateway figures 121
Portraying images as present deities in early second millennium Himalayan paintings 135
-A Pāla manuscript 135
-The Sumtsek at Alchi 140
-Contextualizing and theorizing these comparisons 142
Portraying a complex visual world in late second millennium Tibetan paintings 148
-Supporting visualization and visionary experience 155
-The documentary impulse 159
Conclusion 162
Bibliography 164 |
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| ISSN | 0193600X (P); 25070347 (E) |
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| DOI | 10.2143/JIABS.47.0.3294222 |
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| Created date | 2026.01.23 |
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| Modified date | 2026.02.24 |
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