Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art

ISBN-10: 0300155662
ISBN-13: 9780300155662
Category: Art / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General
Pages: 211
Language: English
Published: 2010
Publisher: Asia Society
Author: Adriana G. Proser

Description

A comprehensive study of the relationship between Buddhist pilgrimage and Asian visual culture

According to sacred texts, the historical Buddha encouraged his disciples to make pilgrimages to sites associated with his life. As sacred images of the Buddha proliferated over time, it is said that his relics were divided among 84,000 South Asian sites of Buddhist worship, or stupas. This abundance of sacred sites in turn rendered pilgrimage and worship increasingly prominent influences on Asian culture and daily life.

Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art employs sacred objects, textiles, sculpture, manuscripts, and paintings to discuss the relationship between Buddhist pilgrimage and Asia's artistic production. Accompanying an exhibition of approximately 90 extraordinary objects, many of which have never before been displayed publicly, this book addresses the process of the sacred journey in its entirety, including discussion of pilgrimage motivation, ritual preparation, and worship at the sacred destination. Exceptional and visually stunning examples of painted mandalas, reliquaries, prayer wheels, and traveling shrines demonstrate that pilgrims and pilgrimage inspired centuries of artistic production and shaped the development of visual culture in Asia.

Through insightful essays by a team of scholars, Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art illuminates artwork's complex role in Buddhist culture, in which art serves as a form of memory and a bridge to the spiritual world as well as a functional tool with temporal purposes.

Published in association with the Asia Society Museum

Exhibition Schedule:

Asia Society Museum, New York (March 16-June 20, 2010)

Get the book

Similar books

Wifredo Lam: The Ey Exhibition
By Catherine David
Dazzlingly illustrated whit over 300 works, including paintings, drawings and photographs, this beautiful book serves to introduce newcomers to Lam, as well as deepen the understanding of those already familiar with his work"--Back cover.
Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500-2005
By Ellen Lupton, Sarah Coffin, Darra Goldstein
Formerly of Cooper - Hewitt : Todd Olson At The Metropolitan Museum of Art : Christine Brennan , Roger Haapala , Jessie McNab , Jeffrey Munger , Clare Vincent , Beth Carver Wees , Deanna Cross and the Image Library staff .
Impressionism Abroad: Boston and French Painting
By Erica E. Hirshler, Mary Anne Stevens
DESMOND FITZGERALD Born 1846 , Nassau , Bahamas ; died 1926 , Brookline , Mass . home and prompting them to acquire more art . They bought Hunt's Gloucester Harbor ( cat . 24 ) as well as paintings by J. Foxcroft Cole and several French ...
In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Painters and Photographers from Corot to Monet
By Sarah Kennel, Kimberly A. Jones, Simon R. Kelly
33 André was long presumed to have worked with his father , Alphonse Giroux , a well - known art dealer . In fact , André and his brother , Alphonse - Gustave , bought the firm from their parents in 1838 , making them the sole owners .
Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi
By Keith Christiansen, Judith Walker Mann, Orazio Gentileschi
Ciampelli was, like Pomarancio and Giuseppe Valeriano, regularly employed by the Jesuits; see Hibbard in Wittkower and Jaffe 1972, 40-41. 6. Bellori (1672) 1976, 217. 7. See Urbino 1953, 35-36. in 1607 (cat. 77).
Dike Blair: Now and Again
By Gary Indiana, Dike Blair, Xandra Eden
Introduction by Nancy M. Doll. Text by Xandra Eden, Gary Indiana.
Degas in the Norton Simon Museum: Nineteenth-Century Art
By Richard R. Brettell, Richard Kendall, Sara Campbell
( 11.7 X 15.7 cm ) Atelier stamp in red on verso , upper right : “ Atelier Ed . Degas " Inscribed lower right : “ Schneider , Berlin " Gerstenberg collector's stamp on verso , lower center M.1979.1 PROVENANCE : Edgar Degas ( sale ...
UKIYO-E PAINTINGS PB
By Timothy Clark
UKIYO-E PAINTINGS PB
The Lane Collection: 20th-century paintings in the American tradition ; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, April 13, 1983 - Aug....
By Theodore E. Stebbins, Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Boston
The Lane Collection: 20th-century paintings in the American tradition ; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, April 13, 1983 - Aug....
Robert Whitman: Playback
By Robert Whitman
Robert Whitman: Playback