Early Buddhist Narrative Art is a pictorial journey through the transmission of the narrative cycle based on the life of the historical Buddha. Karetzky, while demonstrating the various evolutions that the image of the Buddha underwent, maintains that there is an underlying homogeneity of the tradition in the cultures of India, Central Asia, China and Japan. The author, while focusing on the visual representation of the Buddhist narrative, goes into some detail regarding the importance of scriptures in each society, and how the written tradition informed the pictorial. Over seventy photos fill this book, which will be of interest to scholars of art history, Eastern religion and Buddhism in particular.
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CHAPTER I CENTREAL ASIA(XINJANG) BUDDHISM IN CENTRAL ASIS CAVE-CHAPELS AT QIZIL CAVE-CHAPELS AT TATARU CAVE-CHAPELS AT QUMTURA CAVE-CHAPELS AT BEZEKLIK CHAPTER II GANSU PROVINCE INTRODUCTION OF BUDDHISM IN CHINA CAVE-CHAPELS AT DUNHUANG CHAPTER III CENTRAL CHINA CAVE-CHAPELS AT YUNGANG CAVE-CHAPELS ON THE QING RIVER CAVE-CHAPELS AT LONGMEN FREE-STANDING STELES LITERARY EVIDENCE CHAPTER IV KOREA AND JAPAN KOREA JAPAN
