Freer Gallery of Art, The Smithsonian Institution and Department of the History of Art, University of Michigan
出版地
Michigan, US [密西根州, 美國]
資料類型
期刊論文=Journal Article
使用語言
英文=English
附註項
Charlotte Eubanks, PhD (Colorado), 2005, is associate professor of comparative literature, Japanese, and Asian studies at Penn State. She is the author of Miracles of Book and Body: Buddhist Textual Culture and Medieval Japan (2011) and a number of scholarly articles, and she is an associate editor at Verge: Studies in Global Asias. She is currently working on a new book project, tentatively titled Performing Mind: Zen Buddhist Poetry and the Enaction of Consciousness, focused on the literary corpus of the thirteenth-century Zen master Dōgen.
摘要
This piece offers an extended visual analysis of the Zen master Dōgen’s (1200–1253) Universally Recommended Instructions for Zazen, arguing that Dōgen’s calligraphy is a carefully orchestrated performance. That is, it does precisely what it asks its readers to do: it sits calmly, evenly, and at poised attention in a real-world field of objects (trees, grasses, and so forth). The manuscript’s brushstrokes and entire aesthetic layout enact seated meditation. Most analyses of Dōgen’s text have focused on its use and adaptation of Chinese source material, its place in founding the school of Sōtō Zen in Japan, and the ramifications of its doctrinal assertions on our understanding of Japanese religious history. Drawing attention instead to the material, aesthetic, art historical, and performative qualities of the text represents a completely new approach, one that foregrounds how the visual and material qualities of this Buddhist artifact are closely intertwined with its efficacy as a religious object. In pursuing this line of analysis, this article participates in the broader ritual turn in Buddhist studies while seeking to make a particular intervention into art historical qualifications of Zen art.
目次
Abstract 173 Moving from Moment of Creation to Moments of Interpretation: Introducing the Manuscript 176 Dōgen and Universally Recommended Instructions for Zazen: A Brief Historical Sketch 177 Visual Analysis: Calligraphy Enacting Content 179 Classical Notions of Calligraphy as Evidence of Attainment 184 Body and Text as a Material Continuum in Buddhist Culture 187 Apprehensions of Zen Calligraphy in the Modern Art World 188 The Affordances of Paper and Ink 190 Conclusion 191 Notes 193
