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Buddhist pilgrim-monks as agents of cultural and artistic transmission: the international Buddhist art style in East Asia, ca. 645-770

Buddhist pilgrim-monks as agents of cultural and artistic transmission: the international Buddhist art style in East Asia, ca. 645-770
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ISBN 9814722596 (hbk.)
9789814722599 (hbk.)
Author Wong, Dorothy C
Title Buddhist pilgrim-monks as agents of cultural and artistic transmission : the international Buddhist art style in East Asia, ca. 645-770 / Dorothy C. Wong
Publisher Singapore : NUS Press, 2018
Physical desc. xxii, 354 pages ; illustrations ; 25 cm.
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references (pages 300-334) and index.
Contents Part 1: Xuanzang and his fellow Buddhist pilgrims and missionaries, ca. 645-710. Xuanzang and his image-making activities: mass reproduction and materiality in Buddhism -- Genesis of the bejeweled Buddha in earth-touching gesture: Wu Zhao and her monk-advisers -- Part 2: Dōji and his contemporaries, ca. 710-45 -- Dōji's activities in China and Japan -- The rebuilding of Daianji -- Part 3: Completion of Tōdaiji and Jianzhen's travels to Japan, ca. 745-70. The art of Avatamsaka Buddhism at the courts of Wu Zhao and Shōmu/Kōmyō -- Jianzhen's travels to Japan and the building of Tōshōdaiji -- Conclusion.
Subject Buddhist art -- East Asia
Buddhism -- East Asia -- History
Arts, East Asian -- Buddhist influences
East Asia -- Civilization -- Buddhist influences
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