Cross-Cultural Comparisons between the Mughal Tomb Garden of Taj Mahal in Agra (India) and the Dry Landscape Garden of the Ryoan-Ji Zen Monastery in Kyoto (Japan): An Analysis of Cultural and Religious Layers of Meaning in Two Cases of Classical Garden Landscape Architecture
Gardens have always meant a lot to people. Gardens are as much about nature as they are about culture. The extent to which gardens carry and embody both similar and different layers of meaning will be demonstrated by comparing two classical gardens, the Taj Mahal tomb garden of the Mughal rulers in...
| Published in: | Worldviews |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
[2019]
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Worldviews
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Tadsch Mahal (Agra)
/ Park
/ Ryōanji (Kioto)
/ Landscape architecture
/ Meaning
/ Religion
/ Culture
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| RelBib Classification: | AA Study of religion AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion BJ Islam BL Buddhism KBM Asia ZB Sociology |
| Further subjects: | B
nature-culture
B Ryoan-ji B landscape garden B Landscape architecture B tomb garden B Mughal garden B Zen garden B Taj Mahal |
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| Summary: | Gardens have always meant a lot to people. Gardens are as much about nature as they are about culture. The extent to which gardens carry and embody both similar and different layers of meaning will be demonstrated by comparing two classical gardens, the Taj Mahal tomb garden of the Mughal rulers in Agra, India, and the Ryoan-ji dry landscape garden of the Zen monks in Kyoto, Japan. Parallels will be drawn by offering a (diachronic) analysis of the historical accumulation of layers of meaning associated with each one of these two gardens, and (synchronic) structural comparisons will be drawn by raising two thematic issues in particular, the inside-outside relationship and the nature-culture relationship. The roles that Islam and Zen Buddhism play in the religious meaning making of these two classical gardens turn out to be strikingly similar, in that they confirm rather than transform other layers of cultural meaning. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5357 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Worldviews
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685357-02302005 |