Shaping the Lotus Sutra: Buddhist Visual Culture in Medieval China

by Eugene Y. Wang

Book Overview

The Lotus Sutra has been the most widely read and most revered Buddhist scripture in East Asia since its translation in the third century. The miracles and parables in the "king of sutras" inspired a variety of images in China, in particular the sweeping compositions known as transformation tableaux that developed between the seventh and ninth centuries. Surviving examples in murals painted on cave walls or carved in relief on Buddhist monuments...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295986859
• ISBN13: 9780295986852
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 536 Pages
• Weight: 2.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.1" x 9.9"