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Instant Bliss: Enactment of the Miraculous Appearance of Relics in the Hōryūji Nested Reliquary Set |
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Walley, Akiko (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 | 136 - 172 |
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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 | Akiko Walley, PhD (Harvard), 2009, is the Maude I. Kerns Associate Professor of Japanese Art at the Department of the History of Art and Architecture, University of Oregon. She is author of Constructing the Dharma King: The Hōryūji Shaka Triad and the Birth of the Prince Shōtoku Cult (2015) and six scholarly articles. She is currently writing Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Transforming Relics and the Mechanism of Salvation in Early Japanese Reliquaries, a transregional examination of seventh- to eighth-century Buddhist reliquaries. |
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| Abstract | The eighth-century reliquary set discovered beneath the five-story pagoda at Hōryūji 法隆寺, Nara Prefecture, Japan, consists of multiple containers nested one inside another, accompanied by an array of objects of offering. Through a careful examination of how the containers and objects in the Hōryūji set resonate with contemporary vessels and other objects with established ritual or daily uses, this essay argues that the reliquary set performs two functions: one as the catalyst for the salvation of sentient beings by the relics of the Buddha; and the other as the enactment of the process of this salvation itself. By taking on the appearance of familiar objects, the Hōryūji reliquary set evokes in its devotees certain ideas about the agency of the Buddha’s relics and the appropriate emotional response that would charge those relics to perform their salvific acts. Simultaneously, the reliquary set also acts out the very miraculous events performed by the relics. |
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| Table of contents | Abstract 137
Introduction 137
Hōryūji and Its Reliquary Set 139
The Web of Associations in the Hōryūji Reliquary Set 141
(a) Sahari Lidded Bowl 142
(b) Oval Containers 146
(c) Glass Bottle 150
The Transformative Power of the Relics and Their Ascension 152
Enshrinement of the Hōryūji Reliquary Set 156
Hōryūji Reliquary Set and Emerging Relics 160
Conclusion 163
Notes 165 |
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| ISSN | 05711371 (P) |
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| DOI | https://doi.org/10.3998/ars.13441566.0046.006 |
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| Created date | 2023.10.26 |
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| Modified date | 2023.10.26 |
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