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Building a Sacred Mountain: The Buddhist Architecture of China's Mount Wutai

Wei-Cheng Lin

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Description: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 Manjuśrī (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 key to Mount Wutai's emergence as a sacred site. Departing from traditional architectural scholarship, Lin's interdisciplinary approach goes beyond the analysis of forms and structures to show how the built environment can work in tandem with practices and discourses to provide a space for encountering the divine.For more information: http: //arthistorypi.org/books/building-a-sac...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Building a Sacred Mountain: The Buddhist Architecture of China's Mount Wutai. To get started finding Building a Sacred Mountain: The Buddhist Architecture of China's Mount Wutai, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 321

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: University of Washington Press

Release: 2014

ISBN: 0295805358

Description: 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 Manjuśrī (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 key to Mount Wutai's emergence as a sacred site. Departing from traditional architectural scholarship, Lin's interdisciplinary approach goes beyond the analysis of forms and structures to show how the built environment can work in tandem with practices and discourses to provide a space for encountering the divine.For more information: http: //arthistorypi.org/books/building-a-sac...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Building a Sacred Mountain: The Buddhist Architecture of China's Mount Wutai. To get started finding Building a Sacred Mountain: The Buddhist Architecture of China's Mount Wutai, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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