Reinventing the Wheel: Paintings of Rebirth in Medieval Buddhist Temples

by Stephen F. Teiser

Awarded the Prix Stanislas Julien by the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres The Wheel of Rebirth is one of the most basic and popular images in Buddhist visual culture. For nearly two thousand years, artists have painted it onto the porches of Buddhist temples; preachers have used it to explain karmic retribution; and philosophers have invoked it to illuminate the contrast between ignorance and nirvana. In Reinventing the Wheel , noted scholar...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295986492
• ISBN13: 9780295986494
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 319 Pages
• Weight: 2.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.3" x 10.2"