Pia Brancaccio, Department of Art and Art History, Drexel University, 19103, 101 N 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
摘要
The reliefs carved on the vedikā of the Bharhut stūpa in the Satna District of Madhya Pradesh are some of the earliest artworks extant in India to articulate the Buddha’s life stories and the essence of his teaching in a complex visual form. This article proposes that the reliefs from Bharhut depicting episodes from Śākyamuni’s life and jātakas were informed by narrative practices established in the traditions of Buddhist recitation and performance. The inscriptions engraved on the Bharhut vedikā that function as labels for scenes, characters, and places, point to the use of specific storytelling strategies attested in oral recitation and picture scrolls that likely existed as aide-memoire.
目次
Abstract 671 The Vedikā of the Bharhut stūpa: The First Steps of Buddhist Art 674 Epigraphic Evidence from the Bharhut stūpa 677 Picture Scrolls as Models for the Bharhut Vedikā 683 Conclusions 685 Bibliography 686
