Word Embodied
Subtitle: The Jeweled Pagoda Mandalas in Japanese Buddhist Art
Publisher: Harvard University, Asia Center
Published: 2018
Language: eng; jpn
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780674983861
Subjects: Mandala; Buddhist art; Painting, japanese; Pagodas; Buddhism, japan
Description: "Examines the Japanese Buddhist jeweled pagoda mandala paintings, unpacking their revolutionary use of text as picture to show how this visual conflation mirrors important conceptual indivisibilities in medieval Japan. The textual pagoda projects the complex constellation of relics, reliquaries, scripture, and body in religious doctrine, praxis, and art"--Provided by publisher.