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Dharma and Puṇya: Buddhist Ritual Art of Nepal explores the centrality of ritual practices and the agency of people – patrons, ritual specialists, devotees – in creating and amplifying the efficacy of Buddhist art. Jinah Kim and Todd Lewis highlight the unparalleled contributions of Nepal’s artisans, patrons, and ritualists in engendering artistic heritage that is an endearing continuation of Indic Buddhist traditions. The publication presents paintings, illuminated texts, statues, and ritual implements from the Newar tradition in the Kathmandu Valley. Richly illustrated with photographs of contemporary rituals, religious observances, and historical examples, the essays provide cultural, historical and ritual contexts in which objects collected in art museums were used, and animate them. By recentering the historical imagination on communities, their rituals, and popular narrative traditions, Dharma and Puṇya challenges prevailing misconceptions about Buddhism in the West and expand our understanding of Buddhism as a lived world religion. Contributors include: Naresh Bajracharya, Louis Coppleston, Sonali Dhingra, James Giambrone, Jinah Kim, Todd Lewis, Bruce McCoy Owens, Alexander von Rospatt and Sumon Tuladhar.

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Author:   Jinah Kim ,  Todd Lewis
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Weight:   1.038kg
ISBN:  

9789004416413

ISBN 10:   9004416412
Pages:   246
Publication Date:   26 September 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Notes on Transliteration 1 Introduction  Jinah Kim and Todd Lewis  Catalog Section  1 Vasudhārā Maṇḍala 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 Vajrācārya crown  4 Ritual Skull cup  5 Ritual dagger  6 Ritual dagger  7 Measuring vessel  8 Sukundā wick lamp 5 Notes on Rituals Depicted in Newar Art  Todd Lewis and Naresh Bajracharya  Catalog Section  9 Uṣṇīṣavijayā paubha  10 Uṣṇīṣavijayā paubha  11 Stūpa  12 Uṣṇīṣavijayā stūpa  13 Model Svayambhū stūpa  14 Sketch of Boudhanath stūpa  15 Donor lamp 6 Popular Images of Bunga-dyaḥ, Compassionate Localized Bodhisattva  Bruce McCoy Owens  Catalog Section  16 Bunga-dyaḥ  17 Padmapāṇi Avalokiteśvara 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 Prajñāpāramitā manuscript  19 Four folios from a dispersed Gaṇḍavyūha sūtra manuscript  20 Three folios from a dispersed Gaṇḍavyūha sūtra manuscript  21 Pañcarakṣā manuscript  22 Dhāraṇī Saṅgraha manuscript  23 Pañcarakṣā manuscript  24 Pañcarakṣā manuscript Part IV Kathmandu Valley Traditions in the Newar Context 8 Hindu-Buddhist Intersections in the Art of Nepal: Images of Avalokiteśvara  Sonali Dhingra  Catalog Section  25 Kāraṇḍavyūha manuscript  26 Sukhāvatī Lokeśvara with Tārā  27 Wooden image of Indra  28 Kāla Bhairava  29 Bhairava mask  30 Buddhist sacred thread  31 Horoscope  32 Votive stūpa 9 The Tradition of Vajrācārya Storytellers  Todd Lewis and Naresh Bajracharya  Catalog Section  33 Śākyamuni Buddha with avadānas and worshipping donors  34 Śākyamuni with scenes from the Kinnari Jātaka 10 On the Monumental Scroll of the Svayambhūpurāṇa Now Kept in the VMFA Collection  Alexander von Rospatt  Catalog Section  35 Colossal bilampau of the Svayambhūpurāṇa  36 Illustrations from the Svayambhūpurāṇa  37 Five folios and painted wooden covers of a Prajñāpāramitā manuscript  38 Lakṣacaitya Vrata Part V The Newar Artist  Catalog Section  39 Buddha Amitābha 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 maṇḍala  45 Uṣṇīṣavijayā caitya plaque for Burā/Buri Jaṃko ritual  46 Commissioned Vasundhārā Sand Maṇḍala template  47 Wooden Monastery gong (Gambhā 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

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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).

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