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...Steffani Bennett Abstract The monk-painter Sesshū Tōyō (1420–ca. 1506) is among the most heralded of Japanese artists. This reputation is due in large part to his heroization in art-historical texts of the early modern period. Earlier scholarly emphasis on Sesshū's artistic individualism has...

... is further supported by an original translation of an excerpt from Siddhicandra's (d. ca. 1666) Bhānucandragaṇicarita , a Sanskrit text composed by a Jain monk at the Mughal court. Ultimately, this study contributes to critical discourses on iconoclasm, artistic agency, Mughal-Jain relations, and historical...

... as guardians and occasionally have been linked to nearby water systems, such as ponds, tanks, and rivers. Yet, these images have not been studied as an aspect of water regulation within the monasteries themselves. This paper will first consider the water-related challenges that confronted the monks...

... of the local monks with were gradually lost. In earlier times, the center benefited firsthand knowledge of the events that the applique´, from the fresh influx of developments at the fringes. In some 212 centimeters high including the mounting, later times, the benefits that returned were not without had been...

... figures of monks stretching along its back and side walls the reign of Empress Wu (684.-7o5). The largest of those, the (Figs. 2, 3).1 Above these figures the walls are patterned with cave-temple Kanjingsi, is approximately IT meters square and remnants of multiple small seated-Buddha images...

... of Mahasthamaprapta, who usually accompanies Amitabha and Avalokitesvara in the triad iconography, by the bodhisattva Ksitigarbha in the form of a monk. The triad with Ksitigarbha seems to be unique to Kory6 Buddhist painting. Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha is characterized by his compas- sion for condemned souls...

... modern intervention, 1902. From Sekino, Kankoku kenchiku chōsa hōkoku, pl. 18. Reproduced by permission of the Department of Architecture, Graduate School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo. The Diamond Ordination Platform is thought to have been built when the eminent Silla monk Chajang 慈藏...

... Buddha’s monk disciple, is lured by a prostitute, Ma¯tan˙gı¯ to more than half of all commentaries on the S´ u¯ ramgama (Modengqienu and nearly breaks the rule Sutra produced since its appearance.9 While social,˙ eco- of pure living. The Buddha proclaims the S´ u¯ ramgama- nomic, and cultural...

..., twelfth c.), the Kakuzenshō 覚禅鈔 (Compiled Notes of the Monk Kakuzen, 1198), and the Asabashō 阿娑縛抄 (The Anthology of A, Sa, and Va, thirteenth c.). The diagram in the Kakuzenshō , for example, depicts Enma in the middle with his consorts Enmakō and Enmahi on either side. Taizan Fukun and Godō Daishin...

... undertaking begun by the monk Jingwan was without a doubt the centerpiece both conceptually sometime in the Daye reign (605–617) of the Sui and physically. As the first of the nine cave-chambers dynasty, which was continued by five generations of to be built, it was assigned a prominent position atop his...

...Figure 14. Monks and laymen , mid-1st century bce . Kanaganahalli, India. Photograph: author. ...

..., with apsarases and Spirit Kings (shen wang) on the wall surfaces above and below the niches. Among the Spirit Kings at the bottom of the central pillar are a number of monks...

... to the perspective of the viewer. These subsidiary statuettes can be categorized into five For example, the attending figures, South-2 through -5, figure types: bodhisattvas, monks, male attendants, female South-11 and -12, in the Maitreya tableau still have attendants, and heavenly kings (Fig. 11).10 The figurines...