Dharma and Pun?ya: Buddhist Ritual Art of Nepal
Published on 26. September 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-90-04-41641-3 (ISBN)
Description
Dharma and Pun?ya: Buddhist Ritual Art of Nepal explores the centrality of ritual practices and the agency of people - patrons, ritual specialists, devotees - in creating and amplifying the efficacy of Buddhist art. Jinah Kim and Todd Lewis highlight the unparalleled contributions of Nepal's artisans, patrons, and ritualists in engendering artistic heritage that is an endearing continuation of Indic Buddhist traditions. The publication presents paintings, illuminated texts, statues, and ritual implements from the Newar tradition in the Kathmandu Valley.
Richly illustrated with photographs of contemporary rituals, religious observances, and historical examples, the essays provide cultural, historical and ritual contexts in which objects collected in art museums were used, and animate them. By recentering the historical imagination on communities, their rituals, and popular narrative traditions, Dharma and Pun?ya challenges prevailing misconceptions about Buddhism in the West and expand our understanding of Buddhism as a lived world religion.
Contributors include: Naresh Bajracharya, Louis Coppleston, Sonali Dhingra, James Giambrone, Jinah Kim, Todd Lewis, Bruce McCoy Owens, Alexander von Rospatt and Sumon Tuladhar.
Richly illustrated with photographs of contemporary rituals, religious observances, and historical examples, the essays provide cultural, historical and ritual contexts in which objects collected in art museums were used, and animate them. By recentering the historical imagination on communities, their rituals, and popular narrative traditions, Dharma and Pun?ya challenges prevailing misconceptions about Buddhism in the West and expand our understanding of Buddhism as a lived world religion.
Contributors include: Naresh Bajracharya, Louis Coppleston, Sonali Dhingra, James Giambrone, Jinah Kim, Todd Lewis, Bruce McCoy Owens, Alexander von Rospatt and Sumon Tuladhar.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 262 mm
Width: 218 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
1021 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-41641-3 (9789004416413)
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Persons
Jinah Kim, Ph.D. (2006), UC Berkeley, is Gardner Colwes Professor of History of Art & Architecture at Harvard University. Her list of publications includes Receptacle of the Sacred: Illustrated Manuscripts and the Buddhist Book Cult in South Asia (2013).
Todd Lewis, Ph.D. (1984), Columbia University, is Distinguished Professor of Asian Religions at the College of the Holy Cross. He has published monographs, translations, textbooks, and studies of Newar Buddhism in the Kathmandu Valley, including The Epic of the Buddha by Chittadhar Hridaya (2019).
Todd Lewis, Ph.D. (1984), Columbia University, is Distinguished Professor of Asian Religions at the College of the Holy Cross. He has published monographs, translations, textbooks, and studies of Newar Buddhism in the Kathmandu Valley, including The Epic of the Buddha by Chittadhar Hridaya (2019).
Content
Acknowledgements
Notes on Transliteration
1?Introduction
?Jinah Kim and Todd Lewis
?Catalog Section
?1?Vasudhara Ma??ala
Part I Foundations
2?Buddhism, Ritual, and the History of Buddhist Ritualism
?Todd Lewis
3?Overview of Newar Buddhism and Its Art: History and Community in the Kathmandu Valley
?Louis Copplestone
Part II Buddhist Rituals and Newar Tradition
4?Understanding Newar Buddhism through Ritual
?Todd Lewis
?Catalog Section
?2?Vajra
?3?Vajracarya crown
?4?Ritual Skull cup
?5?Ritual dagger
?6?Ritual dagger
?7?Measuring vessel
?8?Sukunda wick lamp
5?Notes on Rituals Depicted in Newar Art
?Todd Lewis and Naresh Bajracharya
?Catalog Section
?9?U??i?avijaya paubha
?10?U??i?avijaya paubha
?11?Stupa
?12?U??i?avijaya stupa
?13?Model Svayambhu stupa
?14?Sketch of Boudhanath stupa
?15?Donor lamp
6?Popular Images of Bunga-dya?, Compassionate Localized Bodhisattva
?Bruce McCoy Owens
?Catalog Section
?16?Bunga-dya?
?17?Padmapa?i Avalokitesvara
Part III Picturing Rituals
7?Performing Texts, Engendering Merits: Manuscripts and Paubhas as Ritual Objects
?Jinah Kim
?Catalog Section
?18?Folios and painted book covers from a Prajnaparamita manuscript
?19?Four folios from a dispersed Ga??avyuha sutra manuscript
?20?Three folios from a dispersed Ga??avyuha sutra manuscript
?21?Pancarak?a manuscript
?22?Dhara?i Sa?graha manuscript
?23?Pancarak?a manuscript
?24?Pancarak?a manuscript
Part IV Kathmandu Valley Traditions in the Newar Context
8?Hindu-Buddhist Intersections in the Art of Nepal: Images of Avalokitesvara
?Sonali Dhingra
?Catalog Section
?25?Kara??avyuha manuscript
?26?Sukhavati Lokesvara with Tara
?27?Wooden image of Indra
?28?Kala Bhairava
?29?Bhairava mask
?30?Buddhist sacred thread
?31?Horoscope
?32?Votive stupa
9?The Tradition of Vajracarya Storytellers
?Todd Lewis and Naresh Bajracharya
?Catalog Section
?33?Sakyamuni Buddha with avadanas and worshipping donors
?34?Sakyamuni with scenes from the Kinnari Jataka
10?On the Monumental Scroll of the Svayambhupura?a Now Kept in the VMFA Collection
?Alexander von Rospatt
?Catalog Section
?35?Colossal bilampau of the Svayambhupura?a
?36?Illustrations from the Svayambhupura?a
?37?Five folios and painted wooden covers of a Prajnaparamita manuscript
?38?Lak?acaitya Vrata
Part V The Newar Artist
?Catalog Section
?39?Buddha Amitabha and Eight Bodhisattvas
11?Notes on the Contemporary Practices of the Newar Artisan Traditions
?James A. Giambrone
?Catalog Section
?40?Modern copies of a set of wooden struts and a blind window
?Catalog Section of Some Contemporary Ritual Objects
?41?Buddhist entry paintings
?42?Pikha lakhu stone for preta off erings
?43?Sun God and Navagraha ritual stone
?44?Girl's symbolic marriage ma??ala
?45?U??i?avijaya caitya plaque for Bura/Buri Ja?ko ritual
?46?Commissioned Vasundhara Sand Ma??ala template
?47?Wooden Monastery gong (Gambha Sim)
Part VI Appendices
Appendix I
?Nepal: Period Overviews and the Time Line of the Kathmandu Valley History
?Louis Copplestone
Appendix II
?The Art of Newar Ritual Vessels, an Inventory of Specialized Objects and Offerings
?Sumon Kamal Tuladhar and Todd Lewis
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Photo Credits
Lenders
Index
Notes on Transliteration
1?Introduction
?Jinah Kim and Todd Lewis
?Catalog Section
?1?Vasudhara Ma??ala
Part I Foundations
2?Buddhism, Ritual, and the History of Buddhist Ritualism
?Todd Lewis
3?Overview of Newar Buddhism and Its Art: History and Community in the Kathmandu Valley
?Louis Copplestone
Part II Buddhist Rituals and Newar Tradition
4?Understanding Newar Buddhism through Ritual
?Todd Lewis
?Catalog Section
?2?Vajra
?3?Vajracarya crown
?4?Ritual Skull cup
?5?Ritual dagger
?6?Ritual dagger
?7?Measuring vessel
?8?Sukunda wick lamp
5?Notes on Rituals Depicted in Newar Art
?Todd Lewis and Naresh Bajracharya
?Catalog Section
?9?U??i?avijaya paubha
?10?U??i?avijaya paubha
?11?Stupa
?12?U??i?avijaya stupa
?13?Model Svayambhu stupa
?14?Sketch of Boudhanath stupa
?15?Donor lamp
6?Popular Images of Bunga-dya?, Compassionate Localized Bodhisattva
?Bruce McCoy Owens
?Catalog Section
?16?Bunga-dya?
?17?Padmapa?i Avalokitesvara
Part III Picturing Rituals
7?Performing Texts, Engendering Merits: Manuscripts and Paubhas as Ritual Objects
?Jinah Kim
?Catalog Section
?18?Folios and painted book covers from a Prajnaparamita manuscript
?19?Four folios from a dispersed Ga??avyuha sutra manuscript
?20?Three folios from a dispersed Ga??avyuha sutra manuscript
?21?Pancarak?a manuscript
?22?Dhara?i Sa?graha manuscript
?23?Pancarak?a manuscript
?24?Pancarak?a manuscript
Part IV Kathmandu Valley Traditions in the Newar Context
8?Hindu-Buddhist Intersections in the Art of Nepal: Images of Avalokitesvara
?Sonali Dhingra
?Catalog Section
?25?Kara??avyuha manuscript
?26?Sukhavati Lokesvara with Tara
?27?Wooden image of Indra
?28?Kala Bhairava
?29?Bhairava mask
?30?Buddhist sacred thread
?31?Horoscope
?32?Votive stupa
9?The Tradition of Vajracarya Storytellers
?Todd Lewis and Naresh Bajracharya
?Catalog Section
?33?Sakyamuni Buddha with avadanas and worshipping donors
?34?Sakyamuni with scenes from the Kinnari Jataka
10?On the Monumental Scroll of the Svayambhupura?a Now Kept in the VMFA Collection
?Alexander von Rospatt
?Catalog Section
?35?Colossal bilampau of the Svayambhupura?a
?36?Illustrations from the Svayambhupura?a
?37?Five folios and painted wooden covers of a Prajnaparamita manuscript
?38?Lak?acaitya Vrata
Part V The Newar Artist
?Catalog Section
?39?Buddha Amitabha and Eight Bodhisattvas
11?Notes on the Contemporary Practices of the Newar Artisan Traditions
?James A. Giambrone
?Catalog Section
?40?Modern copies of a set of wooden struts and a blind window
?Catalog Section of Some Contemporary Ritual Objects
?41?Buddhist entry paintings
?42?Pikha lakhu stone for preta off erings
?43?Sun God and Navagraha ritual stone
?44?Girl's symbolic marriage ma??ala
?45?U??i?avijaya caitya plaque for Bura/Buri Ja?ko ritual
?46?Commissioned Vasundhara Sand Ma??ala template
?47?Wooden Monastery gong (Gambha Sim)
Part VI Appendices
Appendix I
?Nepal: Period Overviews and the Time Line of the Kathmandu Valley History
?Louis Copplestone
Appendix II
?The Art of Newar Ritual Vessels, an Inventory of Specialized Objects and Offerings
?Sumon Kamal Tuladhar and Todd Lewis
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Photo Credits
Lenders
Index