Before and beyond the image :aniconic symbolism in Buddhist art
- 作者: Seckel, Dietrich,
- 其他作者: Brinker, Helmut. , Rosenfield, John M.
- 出版: Zurich : Artibus Asiae Publishers 2004.
- 稽核項: 107 p. :ill. ;26 cm.
- 叢書名: Artibus Asiae : Supplementum ;45
- 標題: Buddhist art and symbolism.
- ISBN: 390707713X , 9783907077139
- 附註: First published as Jenseits des Bildes: Anikonische Symbolik in der buddhistischen Kunst, Abhandlungen der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klass, 1976. 96年度「補助人文及社會科學研究圖書計畫規劃主題 : 建築與文化資產」. Includes bibliographical references (p. 98-103).
- 系統號: 005242464
- 資料類型: 圖書
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"Published a quarter-century ago, Dietrich Seckel's essay remains a vital contribution to a much-debated feature of Buddhist art, its aniconism, its aversion to depicting spiritual entities of the very highest order. Unlike Judaism, early Christianity, and Islam, he explains, the Buddhist faith has not condemned the representation of holy beings or living creatures. Nonetheless it believes that its most crucial spiritual insights lie beyond the power of human imagination to describe or depict; the visual arts can allude to them only obliquely, through omission on the use of non-iconic figures. This discrepancy between the practical, ritual functions of the work of art and concepts of ultimate sanctity, Seckel suggests, has affected Buddhist arts throughout Asia, particularly those of the Meditation School (Chan, or Zen) in China and Japan. " - From the Introduction
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