Building a Sacred Mountain: The Buddhist Architecture of China's Mount Wutai Contributor(s): Lin, Wei-Cheng (Author) |
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ISBN: 0295993529 ISBN-13: 9780295993522 Publisher: University of Washington Press
Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: May 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Art | Asian - General - History | Asia - China - Religion | Buddhism - History |
Dewey: 951.17 |
LCCN: 2013031629 |
Age Level: 22-UP |
Grade Level: 17-UP |
Physical Information: 1.05" H x 7.32" W x 10.38" L (1.81 lbs) 344 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian - Cultural Region - Chinese - Religious Orientation - Buddhist |
Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents |
Review Citations: Choice 01/01/2015 pg. 795 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: By the tenth century CE, Mount Wutai had become a major pilgrimage site within the emerging culture of a distinctively Chinese Buddhism. Famous as the abode of the bodhisattva Ma juśrī (known for his habit of riding around the mountain on a lion), the site in northeastern China's Shanxi Province was transformed from a wild area, long believed by Daoists to be sacred, into an elaborate complex of Buddhist monasteries. In Building a Sacred Mountain, Wei-Cheng Lin traces the confluence of factors that produced this transformation and argues that monastic architecture, more than texts, icons, relics, or pilgrimages, was the key to Mount Wutai's emergence as a sacred site. Departing from traditional architectural scholarship, Lin's interdisciplinary approach goes beyond the analysis of forms and structures to show how the built environment can work in tandem with practices and discourses to provide a space for encountering the divine. Art History Publication Initiative. For more information, visit http: //arthistorypi.org/books/building-a-sacred-mountain |
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