...Susannah Cramer-Greenbaum Abstract Dhaka's National Assembly building, designed by Louis Kahn, was built over several turbulent decades as East Pakistan fought for autonomy and became the new country of Bangladesh. Conventional critical narratives situate the National Assembly within Kahn's...

... death in 1994, keeping pace several state-sanctioned projects, including the creation with the enhanced value of his paintings, and with of the All India Handicrafts Board in 1952, a dedicated growing scholarly attention to his Group 1890 mani- national museum for crafts—the National Handicrafts...

...Richard L. Wilson Copyright © Asia Society 2003 Yamane Yfizo (1919-2001) Yamane Yfizo, Professor Emeritus of Tokyo National Yamane's research method, based on a rigorous organi- University, passed away on Tuesday, 22 May, at the age of zation of biographical and formal evidence...

... have been helpful to use either maṇḍa or daochang all along for the ritual altar, instead of mandala, which has several other usages and meanings. Wang credits Śubhakarasiṃha's manual for an acceptable working definition of a mandala proper as “the assembly of deities whose presence is invoked...

...Junhyoung Michael Shin Copyright © Asia Society 2005 Iconographic Surrogates: Contemplating Amitabha Images in the Late Koryo dynasty (Fourteenth Century) JUNHYOUNG MICHAEL SHIN SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY Kory6-dynasty (918-1392) paintings ofAmitabha Buddha, mostly made...

.... clientele were souvenir views from the small region of To date, Chinese export art has been studied primarily China to which foreigners were then restricted: the cities as an artifact of trade between China and Western of Canton and Macau, and the Pearl River Delta that nations. The research, largely...

... National Preceptor (guo shi), making him the de facto leader of Buddhism in China. In 1264, after Arigh Bake's submission, Phagpa was made head of the newly estab...

...所成,諸寶間錯光明赫炎,如百千日照曜金山;復有無量花園香樹皆寶香林,微風吹擊搖枝動葉,百千妙香一時流布,百千妙音一時俱發;重巖屈曲,處處皆有仙堂靈室龕窟,無數眾寶所成,內外明徹,日月光暉不能復現,皆是古昔諸仙賢聖思如實法得道之處。 Following the description of Mount Mālāya is a brief account about the holy multitude who congregated there: [The Bhagavat,] along with a great assembly of monks and a great...

... pedestal, giving them additional height numbering during the National Treasure designation of (Fig. 10).12 Although the coloration we see today is evi- the su¯ tra tableaux in 1956.14 Ho¯ ryu¯ ji also stores frag- dence of later repairs, the figurines were originally either ments of clay figurines...

...’’ that led to a new kind three famous late-Choso˘ n historians who argued for of objective realism in modern art, without ascribing a the assembling of historical data in order to avoid sub- national character to Chong’s work.28 O Sech’ang’s de- jective explanations. This also corresponds to the spirit...

... Press in 1985. Her additional research into the 1976, then moved to Ottawa to become Director of the biographies of Song and later painters and her preliminary National Gallery of Canada in 1977. After resigning from co-editing of The T.L. Yuan Biographies of Western Writings on this position...

... of Wu’s album with Fu Kun’s grasp of the twenty-five methods of perfect wisdom monochrome handscroll the Twenty-five Deities of in the sutra. Wu Bin did not portray Bodhidharma or Perfect Wisdom (1627), currently in the National Palace Amita¯bha as major figures of the S´u¯ ramgama assembly Museum...

...- Readers who accept this premise may still wonder at my cious devices in Chinese ornament and the decorative arts applying the term "auspicious image" to the works that I is the repertory of 185 motifs (plus extensive variations) treat here. Is every image auspicious? Even a five-colored assembled...

... to the Panchen his lineages.5 The concept of lineage is crucial in Tibetan Lama paintings, these paintings do not represent incar- Buddhism, where the efficacy of a practice depends on nation lineages, but rather the central tantric practices the unbroken transmission of the instructions from...

... the Cultural Revolution encom- hand-to-hand combat that ensued the workers were at passed irreconcilable factions of Red Guards. The Bei- a terrible disadvantage. jing Communist Party Committee mustered their own In addition to the eye-witness accounts assembled Red Guards to counter the attacks on its...

.... Imagery and Inscription: Amita¯bha Assembly, Thousand Buddhas, and the Visual Rhetoric of Reconciliation The Kyeyu Amita¯ bha Triad Stele The so-called Kyeyu Amita¯bha‘ Triad Stele, presently in the National Museum in Ch o˘ngju, was discovered in Piamsa in Yo˘n’gi.8 It is acknowledged...