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The Mediating Mind: Image, Text, and Ritual in the Cave of Perfect Enlightenment at Baodingshan, Dazu |
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Bloom, Phillip E. (著)
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Archives of Asian Art
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| Volume | v.68 n.1 |
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| Date | 2018.04 |
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| Pages | 87 - 109 |
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| Publisher | Duke University Press |
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https://www.dukeupress.edu/
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| Location | Davis, CA, US [戴維斯, 加利福尼亞州, 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 | Author Affiliation: June and Simon K.C. Li Curator of the Chinese Garden & Director of the Center for East Asian Garden Studies |
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| Keyword | Yuanjuedong; repentance; Zongmi; medium; Belting; image anthropology |
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| Abstract | Drawing on the Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment (Yuanjuejing) and repentance liturgies such as Zongmi's Manual for Cultivating Realization in the Place of Practice of the Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment (Yuanjuejing daochang xiuzheng yi), this essay examines the visual program of the Southern Song–dynasty Cave of Perfect Enlightenment (Yuanjuedong) at Baodingshan, Dazu. It argues that the cave serves not as an arena for ritual practice per se but instead presents an idealized representation of such a site. In particular, this essay focuses on the conceptual function of the sculpture of the kneeling bodhisattva in the middle of the cave, a figure that finds no exact counterpart in scriptural sources. Investigating the significance of such figures that mediate between worshippers and their deities in various media in the Song, this essay contends that the kneeling bodhisattva not only enacts perpetual reverence on behalf of absent worshippers but also solicits spectatorial self-identification, enabling viewers to imagine themselves into the representational world of scriptural narrative and liturgical practice constructed in the cave. This essay then interrogates the triangular relationship between illusion, matter, and the mind that is thematized in the cave and in liturgies like that by Zongmi. Engaging with Hans Belting's recent work on image anthropology, this essay concludes by suggesting that the cave, its source texts, and related repentance rituals collectively insist on the fundamental irrelevance of all media save the mind itself. Such a notion points to the need to develop a specifically Buddhist theory of images, media, and minds. |
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| Table of contents | Abstract 87
Texts and Paratexts 90
The Eternal Mediation of the Kneeling Bodhisattva 95
Illusion, Matter, and Ritual Transcendence 99
Conclusion 102
Acknowledgments 104
Notes 104
Works Cited 104 |
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| ISSN | 00666637 (P); 19446497 (E) |
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| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1215/00666637-4342420 |
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| Created date | 2024.04.26 |
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| Modified date | 2025.01.14 |
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