Painting Enlightenment: Healing Visions of the Heart Sutra - Hardcover
by Paula Arai
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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Paula Arai, Robert A. F. ThurmanPublish date:2019-09-10Pages:200
Languages:EnglishPublisher:ShambhalaISBN-13:9781611807561ISBN-10:1611807565UPC:9781611807561Book Category:Religion, ArtBook Subcategory:Buddhism, AsianBook Topic:Zen, Japanese, Sacred WritingsSize:10.10 x 7.00 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.59Product ID:SCVQ3J86FD
A stunningly beautiful, full-color book of Buddhist paintings by twentieth-century Japanese artist Iwasaki Tsuneo, interpreted by Buddhist scholar Paula Arai.
Little known during his lifetime, the Japanese biologist and artist Iwasaki Tsuneo (1917-2002) created a strikingly original and exquisitely intricate body of modern Buddhist artwork. His paintings depict themes ranging from classical Buddhist iconography to majestic views of our universe as revealed by science--all created with the use of painstakingly rendered miniature calligraphies of the
Heart Sutra, one of the most important scriptures of Mahayana Buddhism. In this groundbreaking book, Paula Arai presents over fifty of Iwasaki's paintings, elucidating their Buddhist contexts and meanings as well as their intimate connections to Iwasaki's life as a war survivor, teacher, scientist, and devout Buddhist practitioner. Having been posthumously recognized by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Iwasaki's paintings are sure to be regarded as an innovative and heartfelt contribution to the artistic legacy of twentieth-century Buddhism.
Little known during his lifetime, the Japanese biologist and artist Iwasaki Tsuneo (1917-2002) created a strikingly original and exquisitely intricate body of modern Buddhist artwork. His paintings depict themes ranging from classical Buddhist iconography to majestic views of our universe as revealed by science--all created with the use of painstakingly rendered miniature calligraphies of the
Heart Sutra, one of the most important scriptures of Mahayana Buddhism. In this groundbreaking book, Paula Arai presents over fifty of Iwasaki's paintings, elucidating their Buddhist contexts and meanings as well as their intimate connections to Iwasaki's life as a war survivor, teacher, scientist, and devout Buddhist practitioner. Having been posthumously recognized by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Iwasaki's paintings are sure to be regarded as an innovative and heartfelt contribution to the artistic legacy of twentieth-century Buddhism.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:ShambhalaISBN-13:9781611807561ISBN-10:1611807565UPC:9781611807561Book Category:Religion, ArtBook Subcategory:Buddhism, AsianBook Topic:Zen, Japanese, Sacred WritingsSize:10.10 x 7.00 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.59Product ID:SCVQ3J86FD
PAULA ARAI (Harvard University, Ph.D.) is the Urmila Gopal Singhal Professor in the Religions of India at Louisiana State University. She is the author of Bringing Zen Home: The Healing Heart of Japanese Women's Rituals and Women Living Zen: Japanese Soto Buddhist Nuns.
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