Mudra (eBook)

A Study of Symbolic Gestures in Japanese Buddhist Sculpture

Ernest Dale Saunders (Autor)

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2018
296 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18776-1 (ISBN)

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Appearing for the first time in paperback and illustrated with line drawings, diagrams, and 26 half-tone plates, this study of the iconographic aspect of Japanese Buddhist sculpture surveys the significance of eight principal and six secondary hand gestures (mudra), in addition to the postures (asana), such as the "e;lotus,"e; and the symbolic attributes. A pictorial index helps the reader in identifying the gestures.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.6.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Bollingen Series
• Reihe/Serie: Bollingen Series
• Reihe/Serie: Bollingen Series (General)
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Acala • Adi-Buddha • Ahura Mazda • Akshobhya • Amoghasiddhi • Avalokitesvara • Bhairava • Bodhi • Bodhidharma • Bodhisattva • Bodhi Tree • Bosatsu • Brahmanism • Buddhahood • Buddhism • Buddhist art • Buddhist cosmology • Buddhist philosophy • Buddhist symbolism • Calligraphy • Chakra • Chakravartin • Chinese Buddhism • Circumambulation • consecration • deity • Dharmakaya • divine law • divinity • Doctrine • Dogma • Dukkha • Emblem • Ennin • esoteric Buddhism • Five Dhyani Buddhas • Gautama Buddha • Good and evil • Guanyin • Hentai • honzon • Iconography • impermanence • Jainism • Japanese pagoda • Khakkhara • Kshitigarbha • kukai • lingam • Little finger • Lotus Sutra • Maitreya • Mount Meru (Buddhism) • Mudra • Mysticism • Nichiren • Noble Eightfold Path • Nyorai • Om mani padme hum • Omnipotence • Omniscience • Paramita • Pratyekabuddha • Ratnasambhava • Relic • Religion • Rite • Ritual purification • Samaya • Sanskrit • Sattva • sect • Sentient beings (Buddhism) • Shingon Buddhism • Spiritual body • Spirituality • Superiority (short story) • Sutra • Tantra • Tantras • Taoism • tendai • The Eight Cold Hells • The Venerable • Tian • Trailokyavijaya • tranquillity • Trikona • Tripi?aka • Upanishads • Vairocana • Vaisrava?a • Vajra • Vajrasattva • Vajrayana • Vipassana • Western esotericism • White Lotus • Yamabushi • Yogi
• ISBN-10: 0-691-18776-2 / 0691187762
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18776-1 / 9780691187761