The Buddha scroll
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TextBoston/ New York Shambhala Distributed in the U.S. by Random House 1999Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 v. (unpaged); col. illContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1570625131
- ND1049.T556 A66 1999
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Pages on one continuous strip folded accordion stlye.. Includes a key to the historical figures on one folded leaf in pocket.. In the collection of Chi-lin Provincial Museum, China since 1969.. Responsibility Ding Guanpeng. introduced by Thomas Cleary.
Introduction. List of the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and other figures found in the Buddha Scroll. Buddha Scroll. Booklet: A key to the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and other figures found in the Buddha Scroll
What appears at first to be a small, attractively bound book folds out accordion-fashion to become a one-of-a-kind art reproduction: a striking, 36-foot-long Qing dynasty scroll. A replica of a work originally created in eighteenth-century China, the scroll includes more than 600 portraits large and small�buddhas, bodhisattvas, arhats, devas, and historical figures; as well as over 2,000 images of other kinds�animals, flowers, Buddhist symbols, buildings, and landscapes. The scroll demonstrates, too, the rich plurality of Buddhist sects that existed in China at that time, including images and symbols from the Zen, Hua-yen, Tiantai, Pure Land, and Tantric schools. The scroll is introduced by Thomas Cleary, the renowned translator and authority on Buddhist texts."--Amazon
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