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Chinese Steles

Pre-Buddhist and Buddhist Use of a Symbolic Form

By: Dorothy C. Wong

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Chinese Steles

Pre-Buddhist and Buddhist Use of a Symbolic Form

By: Dorothy C. Wong

Buddhist steles represent an important subset of early Chinese Buddhist art that flourished during the Northern and Southern Dynasties period (386–581). More than two hundred Chinese Buddhist steles are known to have survived. Their brilliant imagery has long captivated scholars, yet until now the Buddhist stele as a unique art form has received little scholarly attention. Dorothy Wong rectifies that insufficiency by providing in this well-illustrated volume the first comprehensive investigation of this group of Buddhist monuments. She traces the ancient roots of the Chinese stele tradition and investigates the process by which Chinese steles were adapted for Buddhist use. She arranges the known corpus of Buddhist steles into broad chronological and regional groupings and analyzes not only their form and content but also the nexus of complex issues surrounding this art form—from cultural symbolism to the interrelations between religious doctrine and artistic expression, economic production, patronage, and the synthesis of native and foreign art styles. In her analysis of Buddhism’s dialogue with native traditions, Wong demonstrates how the Chinese artistic idiom planted the seeds for major achievements in figural and landscape arts in the ensuing Sui and Tang periods.

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University of Hawaii Press

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Pre-Buddhist and Buddhist Use of a Symbolic Form

By: Dorothy C. Wong

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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

By: Dorothy C. Wong

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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

By: Dorothy C. Wong

The period ca. 645-770 marked an extraordinary era in the development of East Asian Buddhism and Buddhist art. Increased contacts between China and regions to both its west and east facilitated exchanges and the circulation of ideas, practices and art forms, giving rise to a synthetic art style uniform in both iconography and formal characteristics. The formulation of this new Buddhist art style occurred in China in the latter part of the seventh century, and from there it became widely disseminated and copied throughout East Asia, and to some extent in Central Asia, in the eighth century. This book argues that notions of Buddhist kingship and theory of the Buddhist state formed the underpinnings of Buddhist states experimented in China and Japan from the late seventh to the mid-eighth century, providing the religio-political ideals that were given visual expression in this International Buddhist Art Style. The volume also argues that Buddhist pilgrim-monks were among the key agents in the transmission of these ideals, the visual language of state Buddhism was spread, circulated, adopted and transformed in faraway lands, it transcended cultural and geographical boundaries and became cosmopolitan.

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The International Buddhist Art Style in East Asia, ca. 645-770

By: Dorothy C. Wong

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The International Buddhist Art Style in East Asia, ca. 645-770

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Wisdom from Dorothy Day

A Radical Love

By: Dorothy Day,Patricia Mitchell

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A Radical Love

By: Dorothy Day,Patricia Mitchell

Saints and spiritual writers have much to tell us about living the Christian life. The Wisdom series condenses the great spiritual truths penned by holy men and women and presents them in a fresh and exciting way. These books explore writings as ancient as the church Fathers and as modern as Dorothy Day and Blessed Pope John XXIII.

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Hold Nothing Back

Writings by Dorothy Day

By: Dorothy Day

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Hold Nothing Back

Writings by Dorothy Day

By: Dorothy Day

Dorothy Day (1897-1980) was a well-known American journalist, activist, and Catholic convert whose cause for sainthood has been endorsed by the US bishops. She wrote numerous articles over a period of several decades for the prominent lay Catholic magazine Commonweal. Hold Nothing Back is gleaned from those writings. It includes reflections on her life as a single mother, her time in jail for civil disobedience, her struggles to keep the Catholic Worker movement she cofounded afloat, and her travels on crowded buses to report from the front lines about labor disputes, racial inequality, and poverty. At the heart of whatever Day wrote lies a profound and prophetic faith. Hold Nothing Back--a new, abridged edition of the previously published Dorothy Day: Writings from Commonweal--gives a glimpse of her remarkable humanity and endurance, and of the vibrant spirituality that underlay them.

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Chinese Steles

Chinese Steles

Chinese Steles

Chinese Steles

Buddhist Pilgrim-Monks as Agents of Cultural and Artistic Transmission

Buddhist Pilgrim-Monks as Agents of Cultural and Artistic Transmission

Buddhist Pilgrim-Monks as Agents of Cultural and Artistic Transmission

Buddhist Pilgrim-Monks as Agents of Cultural and Artistic Transmission

Wisdom from Dorothy Day

Wisdom from Dorothy Day

Hold Nothing Back

Hold Nothing Back

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