(Mobile library) Buddhist Practice and Visual Culture: The Visual Rhetoric of Borobudur (Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism)
▲ Julie Gifford ▲
| #5233886 in Books | 2011-04-20 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.25 x6.25 x.70l,1.10 | File Name: 0415780985 | 248 pages
||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Interpreting Borobudur|By Nick Reef|"The lost monument" of Borobudur stands as one of the most fascinating sites of classical S.E.Asia, and that fascination is only enhanced by the experience of traversing the structure, rather than arising from any aesthetic appeal of it's rather squat-like, overall, stupa form. Given the paucity of textual sources remaining from ninth centur||"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||About the Author|
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, devotion, and ritual. The book goes on to show that the architects...
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