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Japanese mandalas. Representations of sacred geography
Editorial UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI PRESS
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- Publisher UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI PRESS
- ISBN13 9780824820817
- ISBN10 0824820819
- Type Book
- Pages 227
- Published 1999
- Bookbinding Rustic
Japanese mandalas. Representations of sacred geography
Editorial UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI PRESS
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The first broad study of Japanese mandalas to appear in a Western language, this volume interprets mandalas as sanctified realms where identification between the human and sacred occurs. The author investigates eighth- to seventeenth-century paintings from three traditions: Esoteric Buddhism, Pure Land Buddhism, and the kami-worshipping (Shinto) tradition. Explaining why certain fundamental Japanese mandalas look the way they do and how certain visual forms came to embody the sacred, ten Grotenhuis presents works that show a complex mixture of Indian Buddhist elements, pre-Buddhist Chinese elements, Chinese Buddhist elements, and indigenous Japanese elements.- Publisher UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI PRESS
- ISBN13 9780824820817
- ISBN10 0824820819
- Type Book
- Pages 227
- Published 1999
- Bookbinding Rustic