Table of Contents

• Books (6)
• Canonical Works (2)
• Readings (23)
• Audio/Video (18)
• Reference Shelf (1)
• Related Topics (2)

Books (6)

Embodying Compassion in Buddhist Art: Image, Pilgrimage, Practice (2015) – Karen Lucic

Lost Kingdoms: Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Early Southeast Asia (2014)

The Lotus Transcendent: Indian and Southeast Asian Art from the Samuel Eilenberg Collection (1991) – Martin Lerner and Steven Kossak

The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived: The Supreme Buddha (1998) – Weragoda Sarada and P. Wickramanayake

The Buddhist Wheel Symbol (1969) – T. B. Karunaratne

Buddhism Goes to the Movies: An Introduction to Buddhist Thought and Practice (2014) – Ronald Green

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Canonical Works (2)

SN 4.25 Māradhītu Sutta: Māra’s Daughters (2000)

Ud 2.1 Mucalinda Sutta: With Mucalinda (2018)

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Readings (23)

Featured:

• Colossal Buddha Statues along the Silk Road (2019) – Dorothy C. Wong

  Beginning in the northwestern region of India, and spreading through Central Asia and the rest of Asia along the Silk Road, the making of colossal Buddha statues has been a major theme in Buddhist art. The colossal Buddha statues predominantly feature Śākyamuni (the Historical Buddha), Maitreya (the Future Buddha), and Vairocana (the Transcendant Buddha), and they were fashioned out of religious devotion and frequently in conjunction with notions of Buddhist kingship.

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• Tai Khun Buddhism And Ethnic–Religious Identity (2009) – Klemens Karlsson
  ⭐ Recommended

  … the history, myth and cult of a Burmese Buddha image standing in the middle of the [Shan] city of Chiang Tung and the ways in which religious visual culture expresses ethnic-religious identity.

  9 pages

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• Pedestrian Dharma: Slowness and Seeing in Tsai Ming-Liang’s Walker (2018) – Teng-Kuan Ng

  To present slowness and simplicity as prophetic counterpoints against the dizzying excesses of the contemporary metropolis; and to offer contemplative attentiveness as a therapeutic resource for life in the modern world.

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See also:

The Karma-Vibhanga Reliefs at Borobudur (2020) – Bhikkhu Ānandajoti

Ethnicity and identity: Northern nomads as Buddhist art patrons during the period of Northern and Southern dynasties (2003) – Dorothy C. Wong

Performing Mind, Writing Meditation: Dōgen’s Fukanzazengi as Zen Calligraphy (2016) – Charlotte Eubanks

The Light-Emitting Image of Magadha in Tang Buddhist Art (2020) – Dorothy C. Wong

The Making of a Saint: Images of Xuanzang in East Asia (2002) – Dorothy C. Wong

Temple Looting in Cambodia: Anatomy of a Statue Trafficking Network (2014) – Simon Mackenzie and Tess Davis

Cosmography in Southeast Asia (1994) – Joseph E. Schwartzberg

The Shape of Victory: the Earth-Touching Gesture in Context (2022) – Doug Smith

The Sumedhakathā in Pāli Literature and Its Relation to the Northern Buddhist Textual Tradition (2010) – Junko Matsumura

Narratives of Buddhist Relics and Images (2019) – Stephen C. Berkwitz

Calligraphic Magic: Abhidhamma Inscriptions from Sukhodaya (2018) – Peter Skilling

The Buddha Was Bald (2010) – Eisel Mazard

Images and Monasteries in Faxian’s Account on Anurādhapura (2019) – Haewon Kim

Hypostasizing the Buddha: Buddha Image Consecration in Northern Thailand (1995) – Donald K. Swearer

The Buddha’s Fire Miracles (2015) – Bhikkhu Anālayo

The identification of plant reliefs in the Lalitavistara story of Borobudur temple, Central Java, Indonesia (2020) – Destario Metusala, Fauzuah Fauziah, Dewi Ayu Lestari, Janis Damaiyani and others

Seeds Used for Bodhi Beads in China (2014) – Feifei Li, Jianqin Li, Bo Liu, Jingxian Zhuo, and Chunlin Long

The Dharmacakramudrā Variant at Ajanta: An Iconological Study (2000) – John C. Huntington and Chaya Chandrasekhar

Mudrās (2004) – Villa Del Prado

The Footprint of the Buddha (2009) – Patricia Welch

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Audio/Video (18)

Heirs to the Dhamma (2012) – Bhante Yuttadhammo

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring (2003) – Kim Ki-duk

Six Persimmons (2011) – James Cahill

Ritual in Contemplation: Text and Tools in Tantric Buddhism (2011) – Robert Thurman

Stupas and Stupefaction (2016) – Kit Patrick

He’s Still Neutral (2019) – Phoebe Judge

Until Nirvana’s Time: Buddhist Songs from Cambodia (2023) – Trent Walker

Nepal: The Great Plunder (2018) – Steve Chao

Introduction to Buddhist Art (2018) – Doug Smith

Beginnings (2023) – Bhante Sujato

The Abduction of Queen Kakati (2017) – Kit Patrick

The Art of Making Buddha Statues: Cause and Condition (2018) – Dharma Realm Buddhist Association

Korean Buddhist Art (2009)

Angkor Temple Mountains (2009)

Chinese Buddhist Cave Shrines (2009)

The Buddha in Lanna (2020) – Angela S. Chiu

Statue of The Buddha Triumphing Over Mara (2018) – Nathan Yoo and Churyl Zeviar

The Buddha on the Alter of Drepung Loseling Monastery (2020) – Dadul Namgyal

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Reference Shelf (1)

• buddhisim [sic] art (2017) – Bob 1988

  A large collection of 3D models of Buddhist statues.

  Online

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Related Topics (2)

Supertopics (2)

• The Buddhist Religion »
• Art (General)