1st Edition
Buddhist Practice and Visual Culture The Visual Rhetoric of Borobudur
By Julie Gifford
Copyright 2011
248 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
248 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
248 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Providing an overall interpretation of the Buddhist monument Borobudur in Indonesia, this book looks at Mahayana Buddhist religious ideas and practices that could have informed Borobudur, including both the narrative reliefs and the Buddha images.
The author explores a version of the classical Mahayana that foregrounds the importance of the visual in relation to Buddhist philosophy, meditation,... Read more
Introduction 1. Borobudur: Monumental Mandala and Bodhisattva Path 2. Carving Out Time: The Narrative Relief Panels 3. Piecing Together Space: The Panorama of the Purified Field 4. Pervading Space: Bodhisattva Activity in the Cosmic Panorama 5. To Emptiness and Back: The Transformative Work of the Terraces
Biography
Julie Gifford is Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Religions at Miami University of Ohio.
"Gifford has covered so much ground in this book... this is a terrific book that had to be written." - Nick Ford, Mahidol University, Thailand; ASEASUK News No. 52, Autumn 2012
