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Ars Orientalis Issue 46

The Performative Agency of Buddhist Art and Architecture in Asia

  • Introduction (Free Access)

    Michelle C. Wang, Wei-cheng Lin

  • Early Chinese Buddhist Sculptures as Animate Bodies and Living Presences

    Michelle C. Wang

  • Between the Living and the Dead: Three-Tail Funeral Banners of Northern Thailand

    Rebecca S. Hall

  • Ascending to a Buddha Land: A Study of a Pagoda Valley Sculpture on Namsan in Unified Silla

    Sunkyung Kim

  • Performing Center in a Vertical Rise: Multilevel Pagodas in China’s Middle Period

    Wei-cheng Lin

  • Instant Bliss: Enactment of the Miraculous Appearance of Relics in the Hōryūji Nested Reliquary Set

    Akiko Walley

  • Performing Mind, Writing Meditation: Dōgen’s Fukanzazengi as Zen Calligraphy

    Charlotte Eubanks

  • Faceless Gazes, Silent Texts: Images of Devotees and Practices of Vision in Medieval South Asia

    Jinah Kim

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