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Building a Sacred Mountain: The Buddhist Architecture of China's Mount Wutai (A China Program Book / Modern Language Initiative)
Wei-Cheng Lin
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Description for Building a Sacred Mountain: The Buddhist Architecture of China's Mount Wutai (A China Program Book / Modern Language Initiative)
Hardcover. By the tenth century CE, Mount Wutai had become a major pilgrimage site within the emerging culture of a distinctively Chinese Buddhism. This book traces confluence of factors that produced this transformation and argues that monastic architecture, more than texts, relics, or pilgrimages, was the key to Mount Wutai's emergence as a sacred site. Series: Art History Publication Initiative Books. Num Pages: 344 pages, 61 illus. BIC Classification: 1FPC; AMN; HRE. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 262 x 179 x 27. Weight in Grams: 828.
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 Mañjuśrī (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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Condition
New
Series
Art History Publication Initiative Books
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Seattle, United States
ISBN
9780295993522
SKU
V9780295993522
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About Wei-Cheng Lin
Wei-Cheng Lin is assistant professor of Chinese art history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Reviews for Building a Sacred Mountain: The Buddhist Architecture of China's Mount Wutai (A China Program Book / Modern Language Initiative)
"A must read for any reader interested in Buddhist arts and architecture, or the history of East Asian religious traditions, Building a Sacred Mountain is a superb piece of scholarship and a model of appreciation for the integral relationships between religion and the arts."
John Renard
Religion and the Arts
"Reflects a remarkably ambitious and rigorous scholarly ... Read more
John Renard
Religion and the Arts
"Reflects a remarkably ambitious and rigorous scholarly ... Read more