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Presence, Power, and Agency: Donor Portraits in Early Gandharan Art
Annali di Ca’ Foscari: Serie Orientale, 2023 The aim of this paper is to shed light on locally constructed sculptural representations of donors and devotees from Butkara I in Swat valley – one of the earliest Buddhist sites in the Greater Gandhara region.
Elahi, Moizza S.
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Oriental Studies, 2018 The theme of article is Buddhist art of modern Kalmykia. Cult art of the Kalmyks was formed in the course of Buddhist fi ne art canon by the infl uence of traditional culture. Buddhist iconography in interpreting of nomads is syncreatic.
Svetlana Garrievna Batyreva
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Research on the early Buddhist architecture in the Ayeyarwady Basin
Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, 2023 As the major architectural system in Myanmar, the Buddhist architectural heritage in the Ayeyarwady Basin is a concrete representation of the collision and integration of river basin cultures in time and space.
Yicun Pang, Wei Dong, Xihui Wang
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“Ritual and Magic” in Buddhist Visual Culture from the Bird Totem
Religions, 2022 Despite numerous research findings related to medieval Chinese Buddhism, the witchcraft role of bird totems in Buddhist history has not received sufficient attention.
Zhilong Yan, Aixin Zhang
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Oriental Studies, 2018 The article provides an overview of Buddhist paintings stored by the Kalmyk Scientific Center of the RAS. The object of research is the traditional pictorial art of Kalmykia.
S. G. Batyreva
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Oriental Studies, 2018 The article provides an overview of Buddhist sculpture in the museum collection of the KIH of the RAS. The object of the study is the traditional art in the form of devotional articles. The author considers the sculptural images and reveals the structure,
S. G. Batyreva
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Crafting Cinema in the Buddhist Contemplative Gaze
Religions, 2019 In this essay, I discuss the evolution of my approach to creating Buddhist contemplative cinema. I begin, by way of personal anecdotes, defining my approach to Buddhist life and the evolution of what I will call the “Buddhist contemplative gaze ...
Edward A. Burger
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The Posture of Lalitāsana: Buddhist Posing Hierarchy in a Tang-Dynasty Chinese Bronze Sculpture
Religions, 2022 The rubric of the presence of Buddhist sculpture in the absence of an actual deity represents an admirable aspect of Buddhist art, especially sculpture, where the best works have drawn on this paradox in an astounding fashion. An important element in the
Bing Huang
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The Image of the Buddha: Buddha Icons and Aniconic Traditions in India and China
The Journal of Transcultural Studies, 2011 This is a study of aniconic Buddhist art in India and China that refers back to the iconoclasm (Bilderstreit) of the 8th and 9th centuries in the Byzantine empire and the subsequent development of an image theory that justified the already well ...
Claudia Wenzel
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Visual Compassion for Women’s Empowerment
Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education, 2021 Little attention has been given to principles of Buddhist moral conduct in the West. There are ten virtuous actions of Buddhist moral conduct, called the Ten Virtuous Deeds of the Bodhisattvas.
Sakai Nanako
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