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Reinventing the Wheel: Paintings of Rebirth in Medieval Buddhist Temples |
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Teiser, Stephen F.
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| Date | 2006 |
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| Pages | 319 |
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| Publisher | University of Washington Press |
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https://www.washington.edu/
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| Location | Seattle, WA, US [西雅圖, 華盛頓州, 美國] |
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| Content type | 書籍=Book |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Keyword | 生死=life and death=rebirth and redeath=birth and death=Samsqra; 石窟=cave; 佛教人物=Buddhist; 佛教寺院=Buddhist Monastery=Buddhist Temple; 涅槃=Parinibbana=Nibbana=Nirvana; 緣起=paticca-samuppada=pratitya-samutpada=conditions; 緣起=pratitya-samutpada=conditions=paticca-samuppada; 靜坐=Meditation; 禪修=Meditation; 轉世=輪迴=Samsara=Rebirth=Reincarnation; 繪畫=painting |
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| Abstract | The Wheel of Rebirth is one of the most basic and popular images in Buddhist visual culture. For nearly two thousand years, artists have painted it onto the porches of Buddhist temples; preachers have used it to explain karmic retribution; and philosophers have invoked it to illuminate the contrast between ignorance and nirvana. In Reinventing the Wheel, noted scholar Stephen F. Teiser explores the history and varied interpretations of the Wheel of Rebirth, a circle divided into sections depicting the Buddhist cycle of transmigration.
Combining visual evidence with textual sources, Reinventing the Wheel shows how the metaphor of the wheel has been interpreted in divergent local traditions, from India to Tibet, Central Asia, and China. Teiser deftly shows how written and painted renditions of the wheel have animated local architectural sites and religious rituals, informing concepts of time and reincarnation and acting as an organizing principle in the cosmology and daily life of practicing Buddhists.
Engaging and accessible, this uniquely pan-Buddhist tour will appeal to anyone interested in Buddhist culture, as well as to scholars of religious studies, art history, architecture, philosophy, and textual studies.
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| Table of contents | Preface and Acknowledgments ix
Picturing Life and Death as a Wheel 3 (47)
The Canonical Version of the Wheel of Rebirth 50 (26)
Temples and Legends: Western India, 350--550 C.E. 76 (28)
King Rudrayana's Painting of the Twelve Conditions 104 (16)
La roue imaginaire en Chine 120 (26)
Wheels for Meditation: Kumtura, Central Asia, Ninth Century 146 (17)
Wheels in Cave Temples: Yulin, Gansu, Tenth Century 163 (30)
Wheels in Esoteric Temples: Tabo, Western Tibet, Eleventh Century 193 (28)
Wheels for Pilgrims: Baodingshan, Sichuan, Thirteenth Century 221 (18)
Conclusions 239 (34)
Character Glossary 273 (5)
Bibliography 278 (31)
Index 309 |
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| ISBN | 9780295986494 (hc); 0295986492 (hc) |
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| Related reviews | - Book Review: "Reinventing the Wheel: Paintings of Rebirth in Medieval Buddhist Temples," by Stephen F. Teiser / Baumann, Brian G. (評論)
- Book Review: Reinventing the Wheel: Paintings of Rebirth in Medieval Buddhist Temples / McDonald, Matthew (評論)
- Book review: Reinventing the Wheel: Paintings of Rebirth in Medieval Buddhist Temples, by Stephen F. Teiser / Kieschnick, John (評論)
- Book Reviews: Reinventing the Wheel: Paintings of Rebirth in Medieval Buddhist Temples By Stephen F. Teiser / Benn, James Alexander (評論)
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| Created date | 2007.02.27 |
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| Modified date | 2014.06.24 |
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