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A Golden Treasure from Korea: The Gilt-Bronze Bodhisattva Statue of Silla

open access: yesReligions, 2022
A gilt-bronze statue of a standing bodhisattva was discovered at the Sŏllimwŏn Temple site. The statue is notable as its halo and pedestal were found intact at the time of discovery, and the bodhisattva figure itself is almost perfectly preserved.
Young-ae Lim
exaly   +3 more sources

Dazzling Displays and Hidden Departures: Bodhisattva Pedagogy as Performance in the Biographies of Two Twentieth Century Tibetan Buddhist Masters

open access: yesReligions, 2017
This article, part of a special issue on pedagogy and performance in Tibetan Buddhism, explores two closely-related yet apparently opposite Tibetan repertoires of virtuoso Buddhist mastery as sites of performative pedagogy. One of these modes of Buddhist
Annabella Pitkin
exaly   +3 more sources

Emperor Wu of Liang’s Reinterpretation and Elevation of the Precepts as the Bodhisattva Ideal

open access: yesReligions
This paper examines Emperor Wu of the Liang dynasty (r. 502–549) and his efforts to reform the Buddhist saṅgha through the establishment of the bodhisattva precepts and the proclamation of the Prohibition of Alcohol and Meat.
Yoon Kyung Cho
exaly   +3 more sources

3D Laser Scanning Modeling and Application on Dazu Thousand-hand Bodhisattva in China [PDF]

open access: yesThe International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2014
The Dazu Thousand-hand Bodhisattva Statue is located at Baoding Mountain in Chongqing. It has the reputation as "the Gem of World’s Rock Carving Art".
M. Hou, X. Zhang, Y. Wu, Y. Hu
doaj   +1 more source

The Siddha with a Thousand Faces: Non-Tantric and Tantric Elements in the Construction of the Buddhist Siddha in *Jñānākara’s Commentary to the Introduction to the [Path of] Mantra

open access: yesReligions, 2023
This paper is a continuation of an earlier study published by the current author dedicated to the virtually unexplored tantric Buddhist scholar of the phyi dar period, *Jñānākara (11th century), through the textual analysis of his masterpiece, the ...
Aleksandra Wenta
doaj   +1 more source

DISEASE INVESTIGATION OF STONE CARVING BY SPATIAL ANALYSIS: A CASE STUDY ON THE STONE CARVING OF DAZU THOUSAND-HAND BODHISATTVA [PDF]

open access: yesThe International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2021
Cultural relics are often threatened by nature and human, especially stone carving relics which have immovable characteristics. Compared with other cultural relics, the diseases of stone carving relics are more complex, and they can affect carvings ...
Y. Yang   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Artistic features of pedestals, halos, mandorlas of Japanese Buddhist sculptures

open access: yesЯпонские исследования, 2022
The article describes and analyzes important iconographic elements of Buddhist cult sculpture, which are distinguished by great diversity and semantic content.
Yu. L. Kuzhel, T. I. Breslavets
doaj   +1 more source

Japanese Buddhist Canon Depicting Heavenly Sovereigns

open access: yesЕжегодник Япония, 2022
In the Japanese Buddhist canon, the heavenly sovereigns belong to the fourth class of Buddhist deities — after the Buddhas, bodhisattvas, and light kings. They are the largest group.
Yu. L. Kuzhel, T. I. Breslavets
doaj   +1 more source

The psychological aspect of time dynamics in the Kalmyk thangka of the Green Tara

open access: yesNomadic Civilization: Historical Research, 2023
The article presents the author’s interpretation of the information space of the ancient Kalmyk tanka Green Tara, created for the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty, which was celebrated in the Bolshederbetovsky ulus in 1913. There is no doubt that
N. A. Bardaeva
doaj   +1 more source

El ideal budista de bodhisattva. Un esquema histórico de su significado ético

open access: yesLetras, 2022
Desde los inicios del budismo aparece la figura del bodhisattva que, además de ser considerado como una etapa anterior a la budeidad, pasó a ser un ideal de realización abierto a quien quiera seguirlo.
Miguel Angel Polo Santillán
doaj   +1 more source

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