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Word Embodied - The Jeweled Pagoda Mandalas in Japanese Buddhist Art (Hardcover)
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Word Embodied - The Jeweled Pagoda Mandalas in Japanese Buddhist Art (Hardcover)
Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs
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In this study of the Japanese jeweled pagoda mandalas, Halle O'Neal
reveals the entangled realms of sacred body, beauty, and salvation.
Much of the previous scholarship on these paintings concentrates on
formal analysis and iconographic study of their narrative
vignettes. This has marginalized the intriguing interplay of text
and image at their heart, precluding a holistic understanding of
the mandalas and diluting their full import in Buddhist visual
culture. Word Embodied offers an alternative methodology,
developing interdisciplinary insights into the social, religious,
and artistic implications of this provocative entwining of word and
image. O'Neal unpacks the paintings' revolutionary use of text as
picture to show how this visual conflation mirrors important
conceptual indivisibilities in medieval Japan. The textual pagoda
projects the complex constellation of relics, reliquaries,
scripture, and body in religious doctrine, practice, and art. Word
Embodied also expands our thinking about the demands of viewing,
recasting the audience as active producers of meaning and offering
a novel perspective on disciplinary discussions of word and image
that often presuppose an ontological divide between them. This
examination of the jeweled pagoda mandalas, therefore, recovers
crucial dynamics underlying Japanese Buddhist art, including
invisibility, performative viewing, and the spectacular
visualizations of embodiment.
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