Buddhist Art in Its Relationship to Buddhist Ideals: With Special Reference to Buddhism in Japan; Four Lectures Given at the MuseumHoughton Mifflin, 1915 - 73 ページ |
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adoration AMITA BUDDHA ARHANT Artist unknown JAPANESE beauty Bodhisattva Boston Buddha Buddhist art Buddhist ideal Buddhist religion central CHARMING SPLENDOR China Chinese colors on silk cosmos cosmotheism decorative dedicated deities Diamond Cycle disciples dragon enlightenment Eshin expression faith figures FOUR GUARDIAN KINGS Fugen GOLDEN HALL Hokké-dō Hōryū-ji human ideal of communion Illuminator ink on paper inspiration Japan Japanese Buddhism kakemono Kamakura period KANO KANO MOTONOBU KANZAN KATSUKAWA SHUNSHŌ KWANNON landscape Lord lotus flower Lotus of Truth Mahāyāna MANDALA manifestation Master meditation mercy mind MONJU monk Museum Nara nature Painted in colors Painted in ink painters Pāli paper and mounted person picture pious Plate posture realized religious representation represented Rhys Davids saints Sanskrit scenes sculpture serenity SESSHU SHAKA SHIH-TE SHIH-TE JITTOKU Shingon Buddhism silk and mounted SKY-WOMB spiritual communion statues style symbolic temple THIRTEENTH CENTURY tion Tōdai-ji tranquillity trees Truth-winners universe various vowel wisdom worship Zenist
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10 ページ - ... as Buddha is born into the world but lives above the world ; and because its fruits are said to be ripe when the flower blooms, just as the truth preached by Buddha bears immediately the fruit of enlightenment.
78 ページ - Hidden in the caverns of inaccessible mountains, or coiled in the unfathomed depth of the sea, he awaits the time when he slowly rouses himself into activity. He unfolds himself in the storm clouds ; he washes his mane in the blackness of the seething whirlpools. His claws are in the fork of the lightning, his scales begin to glisten in the bark of rain-swept pine-trees. His voice is heard in the hurricane which, scattering the withered leaves of the forest, quickens a new spring. The dragon reveals...
78 ページ - Have you seen the dragon? Approach him cautiously, for no mortal can survive the sight of his entire body. The Eastern dragon is not the gruesome monster of medieval imagination, but the genius of strength and goodness. He is the spirit of change, therefore of life itself. We associate him with the supreme power or that sovereign cause which pervades everything, taking new forms according to its surroundings, yet never seen in a final shape. The dragon...
10 ページ - Just as the chintamani jewel is said to give inexhaustible wealth to its possessor, so the treasure of this glorious law never ceases to give assurance to those who seek for it. Moreover, it has come to Korea from far-off India, and the peoples of the countries lying between these two are now all its supporters.
5 ページ - ... Then those gods, as easily as a strong man might stretch out his arm, or draw it outstretched back again, vanished from the Pure Abodes, and appeared before the Exalted One. There they saluted him, and stood at one side. And so standing, one after another, they recited to him these verses : — (i.) Great is the gathering in the glade; The hosts of heaven together met ! We to this holy congress here Are come, that we too may behold2 The Brotherhood invincible. (ii.) The brethren have made straight...
26 ページ - Fud5, or the human passions which are to be subjugated by the symbolic sword round which the dragon is coiled. Painted in colors on silk and mounted as a kakemono. SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATIONS 35 izes the unity of the cosmic and the individual souls in the final spiritual enlightenment.1 Carried in the hands are flowers, jewels, weapons, staffs and other symbols, in almost endless variety, with which definite significations are associated, and these expressions, postures and emblems may thus be varied...
6 ページ - ... brethren have made straight their hearts, Wrought up to concentration rapt. Wisely their faculties they guard, As driver keeping grip on rein. (iii.) All bars and bolts are cut for them. The barriers down, all lusting gone, Spotless and pure their way they go, Seers, well-tamed young elephants. (iv.) Who in the Buddha refuge take, They shall not go to woeful doom. When they put off this human frame,8 They shall fill up the hosts of heaven. 1 The supreme heaven of the Rupa-loka, the Brahma world...