Buddhist art - its nature, creation, function, conservation and contemporary manifestations - was the subject of the Buddhist Art Forum, a major conference held at The Courtauld Institute of Art in 2012 and sponsored by The Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation. For the first time a representative group of those with a stake in Buddhist art - including art historians, conservators, curators and officials, a monk from Nepal and a contemporary artist - was gathered to address these issues. The twenty-eight papers in this resulting ground-breaking volume consider Buddhist art from the earliest Indian stupas to contemporary Himalayan thangkas, as well as its ritual use and audience, its tourist consumption in expanding economies, its often ill-conceived conservation, and its influence on modern and contemporary Western art. A stimulating range of viewpoints is expressed in this lavishly illustrated volume, making a genuine contribution to the awareness and understanding of these issues and developments that goes beyond regional and specialist boundaries.
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Foreword - David Park, Kuenga Wangmo and Sharon Cather vii List of contributors ix Introduction - David Park xi Presenting the Buddha: Images, conventions, and significance in early Indian Buddhism - Juhyung Rhi 1 Buddha's stupa and image: in search of the ultimate icon - Tadeusz Skorupski. 19 Rhetoric of reward, ideologies of inducement: why produce Buddhist 'art' - Peter Skilling 27 Art in the dark: the ritual context of Buddhist caves in western China - Robert Sharf 38 Painted and architectural ornamentation of the temples of Pagan: more than mere iconography and decoration - Claudine Bautze-Picron 66 The problem of authenticity: a historical geography of Buddhist art in eighteenth-century China - Patricia Berger 26 The oracle and temple of Lamochok: aspects of history and iconography - Matthew T. Kapstein 96 The wailing arhats: Buddhism, photography and resistance in modern China - Francesca Tarocco 113 Conserving the Buddhist wall paintings of Bamiyan in Afghanistan: practical issues and dilemmas - Yoko Taniguchi 124 Buddhist wall paintings in context: the foundation for future scholarship - Susan Whitfield 140 Dunhuang Grotto Buddhist art and its preventive conservation - Wang Xudong 153 Applying the China Principles: The Getty Conservation Institute's work at Dunhuang and Chengde in China - Long Wong, Martha Demas and Neville Agnew 170 Conservation and research in Buddhist art from an art-historical perspective - Christian Luczanits 187 Sumda Chun and other early Buddhist wall paintings in Ladakh: practical and ethical conservation issues from failing structures to obscuring surface layers - Charlotte Martin de Fonjaudran, Sreekumar Menon and Maninder Singh Gill 203 Relationship of conservation to the functions of monuments, with reference to Buddhism in Bhutan - Dorjee Tsering 219 Buddhist wall paintings of Bhutan: material traditions and conservation realities - Lisa Shekede and Stephen Rickerby 227 A new image of the Mahasiddha Virupa: a major addition to the corpus of early fifteenth-century bronzes - John Clarke 241 The Buddha and his brothers: expressions of power, place and community by the network of Mahamuni images - Pyi Phyo Kyaw and Kate Crosby. 263 Buddhist strategies of keeping its sacred images and shrines alive: the example of the Svayambhu caitya of Kathmandu - Alexander von Rospatt 275 Materiality of devotion: Tibetan Buddhist shrines of the western Himalaya - Melissa R. Kerin 286 The pilgrimage to Bangajang: a devotional circuit in the eastern Himalayas - T. Richard Blurton 297 Sacred art: on the path to wisdom and compassion - Matthieu Ricard 315 Re-inscribing Mount Myohyang: from Pohyon Temple to the International Friendship Exhibition - Marsha Haufler 332 Why collect Tibetan art? - Alice S. Kandell 349 Buddhist art in an Ando building - Francesca Consagra 362 Revisiting The Third Mind: the Buddhist imaginary in modern American art - Alexandra Munroe 371 Sculptures of Mindfulness - Antony Gormley 379
