Dharma and Puṇya: Buddhist Ritual Art of Nepal

ISBN-13: 9789004416413 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 256 str.

Jinah Kim; Todd Lewis

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Dharma and Punya explores the centrality of ritual practices and the agency of people in creating and amplifying the efficacy of Buddhist art. It presents paintings, illuminated texts, statues, and ritual implements from the Newar tradition in the Kathmandu Valley.

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Acknowledgements
Notes on Transliteration

1 Introduction
Jinah Kim and Todd Lewis

Catalog Section
1 Vasudhara Mandala

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 Usnisavijaya paubha
10 Usnisavijaya paubha
11 Stupa
12 Usnisavijaya stupa
13 Model Svayambhu stupa
14 Sketch of Boudhanath stupa
15 Donor lamp

6 Popular Images of Bunga-dyah, Compassionate Localized Bodhisattva
Bruce McCoy Owens

Catalog Section
16 Bunga-dyah
17 Padmapani 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 Prajñaparamita manuscript
19 Four folios from a dispersed Gandavyuha sutra manuscript
20 Three folios from a dispersed Gandavyuha sutra manuscript
21 Pañcaraksa manuscript
22 Dharani Sangraha manuscript
23 Pañcaraksa manuscript
24 Pañcaraksa 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 Karandavyuha 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 Svayambhupurana Now Kept in the VMFA Collection
Alexander von Rospatt

Catalog Section
35 Colossal bilampau of the Svayambhupurana
36 Illustrations from the Svayambhupurana
37 Five folios and painted wooden covers of a Prajñaparamita manuscript
38 Laksacaitya 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 mandala
45 Usnisavijaya caitya plaque for Bura/Buri Ja ko ritual
46 Commissioned Vasundhara Sand Mandala 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

O autorze

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).