Pleasure and Fear: On the Uneasy Relation between Indic Buddhist Monasticism and Art

When monastics of the Indic North and Northwest around the turn of the Common Era made the decision to introduce art into monasteries, current cultural assumptions regarding the aesthetic experience of such objects, which were axiomatically negated by Buddhist ideology, led to certain confrontations...

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Main Author: Albery, Henry 1989- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: MDPI 2022
In: Religions
Year: 2022, Volume: 13, Issue: 12
Further subjects:B Monasticism
B Fashion
B Pleasure
B Buddha-images
B Semiotics
B Humour
B monastic law ( vinaya )
B Fear
B Aesthetics
B Indic Buddhism
B Iconoclasm
B Species
B stūpas
B figural imagery
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