Overview

Early Buddhist Narrative Art is a pictorial journey through the transmission of the narrative cycle based on the life of the historical Buddha. Karetzky, while demonstrating the various evolutions that the image of the Buddha underwent, maintains that there is an underlying homogeneity of the tradition in the cultures of India, Central Asia, China and Japan. The author, while focusing on the visual representation of the Buddhist narrative, goes into some detail regarding the importance of scriptures in each society, and how the written tradition informed the pictorial. Over seventy photos fill this book, which will be of interest to scholars of art history, Eastern religion and Buddhism in particular.

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In sum, this is an excellent text for courses on Buddhist or comparative religious arts.>>>>--John Renard Religion And The Arts

In sum, this is an excellent text for courses on Buddhist or comparative religious arts.--John Renard Religion and The Arts

In sum, this is an excellent text for courses on Buddhist or comparative religious arts.>>>>--John Renard Religion and The Arts

In sum, this is an excellent text for courses on Buddhist or comparative religious arts. -- John Renard, Saint Louis University * Religion and The Arts * . . . Karetzky's book is a welcome contribution to the field. . . > * Arts Asiatiques * . . . Karetzky's book is a welcome contribution to the field. . . * Arts Asiatiques * In sum, this is an excellent text for courses on Buddhist or comparative religious arts. -- John Renard, Saint Louis University * Religion and The Arts *

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Patricia E. Karetzky is O. Munsterberg Chair in Asian Art at Bard College, and Associate Professor at Lehman College, New York.

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