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Buddhism and Iconoclasm in East Asia - A History (Hardcover, First Tion)
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Buddhism and Iconoclasm in East Asia - A History (Hardcover, First Tion)
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This is a cross-cultural study of the multifaceted relations
between Buddhism, its materiality, and instances of religious
violence and destruction in East Asia, which remains a vast and
still largely unexplored field of inquiry. Material objects are
extremely important not just for Buddhist practice, but also for
the conceptualization of Buddhist doctrines; yet, Buddhism
developed ambivalent attitudes towards such need for objects, and
an awareness that even the most sacred objects could be destroyed.
After outlining Buddhist attitudes towards materiality and its
vulnerability, the authors propose a different and more inclusive
definition of iconoclasm-a notion that is normally not employed in
discussions of East Asian religions. Case studies of religious
destruction in East Asia are presented, together with a new
theoretical framework drawn from semiotics and cultural studies, to
address more general issues related to cultural value, sacredness,
and destruction, in an attempt to understand instances in which the
status and the meaning of the sacred in any given culture is
questioned, contested, and ultimately denied, and how religious
institutions react to those challenges.
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