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The Image of the Buddha: Buddha Icons and Aniconic Traditions in India and China

Wenzel, Claudia

In: Transcultural Studies, 1 (2011), S. 263-305

Offizielle URL: https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/transcultural/article/view/1938
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Abstract

This is a study of aniconic Buddhist art in India and China that refers back to the iconoclasm (Bilderstreit) of the 8th and 9th centuries in the Byzantine empire and the subsequent development of an image theory that justified the already well established image cult. By deliberately adopting methodological approaches and terms that have been used for some time in Byzantine art history, relevant visual and textual evidence about the Buddhist tradition will be restructured and evaluated, pointing out similarities and dissimilarities. Anthropomorphic Buddha images and aniconic representations of the Buddha in India and China are compared; furthermore, an overview of the establishment of a Buddhist icon cult with image worship in China is given, discussing related phenomena like narratives about the First Image, the True Countenance, and miracle-working Divine Images. Against this background, Chinese aniconic tendencies and the image discourse within the Chinese Buddhist community around the time of the second Buddhist persecution (574-577) are explored, when rock inscriptions in Shandong province preferred the Buddha’s Golden Words to his image.

Dokumententyp: Artikel
Titel der Zeitschrift: Transcultural Studies
Band: 1
Erstellungsdatum: 25 Okt. 2011 09:47
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Seitenbereich: S. 263-305
Institute/Einrichtungen: Zentrale und Sonstige Einrichtungen > Exzellenzcluster Asia and Europe in a Global Context
DDC-Sachgruppe: 950 Geschichte Asiens
Freie Schlagwörter: History of Art; Buddhist Studies, image theory in Buddhist art, aniconic representations, image worship, Bilderstreit
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