Buddhist Art and Ritual Spaces in the Global Perspective
A special issue of Religions (ISSN 2077-1444).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 21 July 2024 | Viewed by 386
Special Issue Editor
Interests: Buddhist studies; rock-cut architecture; iconographic programs; South Asia; Korea; meditation; Jainism; archaeology; digital humanities; art and architectural history
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue of Religions will host contributions to the study of Buddhist art and architecture and the practices they foster. The Buddhist imagemaking tradition is varied in its depictions, including jataka tales; scenes from the lives of Buddhas; myriad realms, paradises and purelands; hells; mandalas; and beings who come to the aid of Buddhist practitioners and protect the Dharma. Geographically, it spans Asia and beyond, from the farthest regions of northwestern South Asia to the islands of Japan.
While contributions to the broader study of Buddhist art and architecture are welcome, this Special Issue particularly seeks papers that explore relationships between Buddhist art and ritual spaces. They would engage interactions between architecture and art in its various forms, and both enhanced and facilitated Buddhist ritual and devotional practices. These interactions may inspire Buddhist architecture and the ritual spaces engaged by practitioners to serve as the subject matter and symbolic content of artistic depictions, or they may evoke and encourage experiencing other-worldly realms through arrangements of architectural space.
Analyses of decorative and iconographic programs, or how architectural forms may evoke a macrocosm, lend themselves readily to monographic studies of sites. This Special Issue wishes to provide a wide and far-ranging series of case studies representing Buddhist tradition throughout the world and in various phases of the religious tradition’s history.
Dr. David Efurd
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Buddhism
- art
- architecture
- painting
- cave
- mural
- sculpture
- devotion
- ritual
- India
- Tibet
- Asia
- Japan
- China
- Mahayana
- Theravada
- Vajrayana
