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Title: Buddha: Radiant Awakening by Jackie Menzies ISBN: 0-300-09872-3 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Summary: Radiant Awakening
Comment: "Buddha: Radiant Awakening" is the catalog of an exhibition of Buddhist art held at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia from Nov. 2001 to Feb. 2002. The exhibit featured 132 objects from various museums and private collections, and focused exclusively on images of the Buddha in stone sculptures, bronzes, and paintings from China, India, Southeast Asia, Japan, and Tibet, with dates ranging from 200 A.D. to the present.
In connection with the interesting and beautiful objects featured in the exhibition, this catalog contains a lot of information about Buddhist iconography that is hard to find elsewhere, and is conveniently organized here in a single book.
Contents include images and articles about: the historical Buddha (Shakyamuni), Buddist cosmology (Pure Lands, Heavens), the five Transcendent or Dhyani Buddhas (Vairocana, Amogasiddhi, Ratnasambhava, Akshobhya, Amitayus), Amitabha (the Buddha of the Western Paradise), Maitreya (the Buddha of the Future), Bhaisajyaguru (Japanese "Yakushi," the Buddha of Healing), and other Buddhas imaged in the Theravada, Mahayana, and Vajrayana systems of worship. Conceptually, the catalog is unified by the idea of the forms of Buddha radiating through cosmic time and space.
The exhibit's focus on images of Buddha means that the rest of the Buddhist pantheon (Bodhisattvas, Guardians, etc) is touched upon only in passing, but has the advantage of allowing a deeper exploration of its central subject. For general readers, this book will get you "up to speed" really fast, while students and scholars will appreciate its expert commentary and references to current scholarship. Plus, you get large-format photographs of the objects in the exhibition. Highly recommended for anyone who loves Asian art!
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Title: Himalayas: An Aesthetic Adventure by Pratapaditya Pal, Amy Heller, Oskar Von Hinuber, Gautamavajra Vajracarya, Art Institute of Chicago, Freer Gallery of Art, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery ISBN: 0520239008 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: A Modern Buddhist Bible: Essential Readings from East and West by Donald S., Jr. Lopez ISBN: 0807012432 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Buddhism: A Concise Introduction by Huston Smith, Philip Novak ISBN: 0060506962 Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Art of the Himalayas: Treasures from Nepal and Tibet by Pratapaditya Pal ISBN: 1555950663 Publisher: Hudson Hills Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1991 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: The Buddhist Murals of Pagan: Timeless Vistas of the Cosmos by Claudine Bautze-Picron, Joachim K. Bautze ISBN: 0834805332 Publisher: Weatherhill Inc. Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $60.00 |
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