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Before and Beyond the Image: Aniconic Symbolism in Buddhist Art
Author Seckel, Dietrich (著) ; Leisinger, Andreas (譯) ; Brinker, Helmut (編) ; Rosenfield, John (編)
Source Artibus Asiae. Supplementum
Volumev.45
Date2004
Pages3 - 107
PublisherMuseum Rietberg
Publisher Url https://rietberg.ch/en/
LocationZurich, Switzerland [蘇黎世, 瑞士]
Content type期刊論文=Journal Article
Language英文=English
Table of contentsIntroduction 7
Basis in Doctrine and Worship 11
Symbols in Scenes of the Life of the Buddha 14
Jātakas 15
Birth 17
First Seven Steps, First Meditation and Great Renunciation 19
Enlightenment (Bodhi Tree) 21
Tree and Throne 24
Footprints 26
First Sermon (Wheel) 27
Wheel atop column 29
Walking path (cankrama) 29
Nirväna (Stüpa) 30
Groups and Combinations of Symbols 35
Tree, wheel and stüpa side-by-side or above one another 35
Combinations forming the body of the Buddha 38
Symbolism of a Cosmological and Universal Nature 40
Universal Monarch (cakravurtin) 41
World axis/Wheel atop column 41
Variants of Meaning 43
Sacred person 43
Sacred Place 44
Sacred Object 45
Spectrum of meanings of Stüpa 46
Objects of veneration: body relics, sacred utensils, sacred symbols (farīrika, paribbogika, uddeśika) 47
Genesis of the Buddha Image 47
Preliminary phases 47
Transitional phase 49
Basis of the Buddha image 53
A Principle that Transcends History 55
Emptiness of Images 55
Stages of knowledge 56
Transcending of vision 56
Image and symbol as yantra 57
Surviving Older Symbols 59
Footprints 59
Wheel and wheel atop column 61
Stūpa 62
Pagoda as receptacle for relics and world symbol 64
Relics inside Buddha images 64
New Symbols in Mahāyāna Buddhism 68
Vajra 69
Symbols in mandalas 69
Geometric symbols: triangle, circle 71
Mudrā/ seal-sign 73
Word, Letter, Sound 74
Mantra, dhāranī, bīja 74
Siddhaṃ script 75
«Holy Title» of the Lotus Sūtra 77
Sound / silence 79
Zen Symbols 81
Geometric symbols 81
Empty circle 82
Mirror 83
Full moon 84
Sengai's «Universe» 86
Objects from everyday life 88
Empty pictorial space 88
Handwriting (bokuseki) 90
VOID/Original face 92
Portraits (chinsō) 93
Picrure and non-picture 93
Appendix 98
Bibliography 98
Glossary of Chinese-Japanese Characters 106
Source of Illustrations 106
ISSN14230526 (P); 22964223 (E)
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Created date2023.09.29
Modified date2023.10.06



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