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
Michelle C. Wang, PhD (Harvard, 2008) is assistant professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Georgetown University. She is the author of articles on changing conceptions of maṇḍalas in Tang China, paired images in Buddhist visual culture, and Buddhist art and architecture in East Asia. She is currently completing a book manuscript titled Maṇḍalas in the Making: The Visual Culture of Esoteric Buddhism at Dunhuang.
摘要
Miracle tales from medieval China recorded the ability of Buddhist statues to walk, speak, emit light, and even feel pain. Consecration ceremonies, however, emphasized the sense of vision and the agency of the ritual practitioner over the agency of the statue. This essay argues that by underscoring the corporeal agency of animated sculptures, which was manifested both in their extraordinary qualities and in their vulnerability to damage, the circulation of miracle tales enabled a participatory practice in which devotees, monks and laypeople alike, were able to engage in the performative act of writing statues into life.
目次
Abstract 13 Introduction 13 Image Consecration Rituals and the Appeal to Vision 14 Miracle Tales and Sympathetic Response 17 The Sculpted Body in Motion 22 Vulnerability and Materiality 27 Conclusion 33 Notes 34
