Archaeological and Visual Sources of Meditation in the Ancient Monasteries of Kuča

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-04-27857-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 28, 214 Seiten, Format (B × H): 218 mm x 295 mm, Gewicht: 916 g

Reihe: Studies in Asian Art and Archaeology

In Archaeological and Visual Sources of Meditation in the Ancient Monasteries of Kuca, Angela F. Howard and Giuseppe Vignato use diverse methodological approaches from archaeology, art history and religious studies to reconstruct monastic life and practices in the rock monasteries on the northern Silk Route (ca.200-650). Analysis of the caves’ function, meditation manuals, and the cave murals highlights the centrality of meditation, a fundamental duty of Kuca monastics. This interdisciplinary study utilizes hitherto unpublished line drawings, maps, and photographs to reconstruct and interpret the architecture and décor of Kuca caves, thus revealing the close links between the spiritual and the physical, between doctrinal teaching and practice and the lay-out and décor of the monasteries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Howard, Angela

Vignato, Giuseppe

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Christliche Orden und Vereinigungen, Ordensgeschichte, Mönchstum
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Gebäudetypen Sakralbauten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Archäologie spezieller Regionen und Zeitalter
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Kultur

Über Autor(innen)

Angela F. Howard, Professor of Asian Art, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey is the author of The Imagery of the Cosmological Buddha, E. J. Brill 1986, Summit of Treasures, Weatherhill 2001, and co-author of Chinese Sculpture, Yale 2006.
Giuseppe Vignato, Professor of Archaeology, Peking University, is the author of Districts and Groups, an Archaeological Investigation of the Rock Monasteries of Kucha (in Chinese), Shanghai Classics Publisher, 2013, in addition to several articles and translations in Chinese of Western scholarly publications.