Painting Faith : Li Gonglin and Northern Song Buddhist Culture
An-Yi. Pan
Bok Engelsk 2007 · Electronic books.
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Medvirkende | Pan, An-yi. (Author)
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Utgitt | Leiden : : BRILL, , 2007.
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Omfang | 1 online resource (462 p.)
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Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; List of Illustrations; Diagrams; Introduction; Chapter One Longmian Chan and the Foundation of Li Gonglin's Buddhist Learning; Chapter Two Longmian Mountain Villa as Earthly Paradise; Chapter Three Li Gonglin, an Early Chinese Chan Painter; Chapter Four Li Gonglin's White Lotus Society Picture; Chapter Five White Lotus Society Picture and Li Gonglin's Pure Land Faith; Epilogue; Appendix Three Extant Versions of White Lotus Society Picture; Glossary; Bibliography; Index. - Despite Li Gonglin's (ca. 1049-1106) deep faith in Buddhism and the large number of recorded and extant Buddhist paintings associated with or ascribed to this great painter, twentieth century scholarship on Li Gonglin has focused primarily on his literatus identity and Confucian art oeuvres. This book departs from this traditional view to establish Li Gonglin's importance in Chinese Buddhist art history through both the local Longmian Chan and the larger Northern Song religious contexts. It offers a fresh understanding of the impact the intermingling of Tiantai, Pure Land, Huayan and Chan phil
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ISBN | 9004160612. - 9789004160613
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