Comprehensive Dissertation Index

Comprehensive Dissertation Index
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 766
Release: 1984
Genre: Dissertations, Academic
ISBN:

Vols. for 1973- include the following subject areas: Biological sciences, Agriculture, Chemistry, Environmental sciences, Health sciences, Engineering, Mathematics and statistics, Earth sciences, Physics, Education, Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology, History, Law & political science, Business & economics, Geography & regional planning, Language & literature, Fine arts, Library & information science, Mass communications, Music, Philosophy and Religion.

Zen Buddhist Rhetoric in China, Korea, and Japan

Zen Buddhist Rhetoric in China, Korea, and Japan
Author: Christoph Anderl
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 490
Release: 2011-11-25
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9004185569

Through a diachronic and comparative approach this book offers a comprehensive study of Zen Buddhist linguistic and rhetoric devices in China, Korea, and Japan. It draws a vivid picture of the complexity of Zen Buddhist literary production in interaction with doctrinal and ritual issues, as well as in response to the sociopolitical contexts.

The Journey of Maps and Images on the Silk Road

The Journey of Maps and Images on the Silk Road
Author: Philippe Forêt
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2008-11-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 9047424972

This book covers new ground on the diffusion and transmission of geographical knowledge that occurred at critical junctures in the long history of the Silk Road. Much of twentieth-century scholarship on the Silk Road examined the ancient archaeological objects and medieval historical records found within each cultural area, while the consequences of long-distance interaction across Eurasia remained poorly studied. Here ample attention is given to the journeys that notions and objects undertook to transmit spatial values to other civilizations. In retracing the steps of four major circuits right across the many civilizations that shared the Silk Road, The Journey of Maps and Images on the Silk Road traces the ways in which maps and images surmounted spatial, historical and cultural divisions.

Chinese Steles

Chinese Steles
Author: Dorothy C. Wong
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2004-09-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0824861876

Buddhist steles represent an important subset of early Chinese Buddhist art that flourished during the Northern and Southern Dynasties period (386–581). More than two hundred Chinese Buddhist steles are known to have survived. Their brilliant imagery has long captivated scholars, yet until now the Buddhist stele as a unique art form has received little scholarly attention. Dorothy Wong rectifies that insufficiency by providing in this well-illustrated volume the first comprehensive investigation of this group of Buddhist monuments. She traces the ancient roots of the Chinese stele tradition and investigates the process by which Chinese steles were adapted for Buddhist use. She arranges the known corpus of Buddhist steles into broad chronological and regional groupings and analyzes not only their form and content but also the nexus of complex issues surrounding this art form—from cultural symbolism to the interrelations between religious doctrine and artistic expression, economic production, patronage, and the synthesis of native and foreign art styles. In her analysis of Buddhism’s dialogue with native traditions, Wong demonstrates how the Chinese artistic idiom planted the seeds for major achievements in figural and landscape arts in the ensuing Sui and Tang periods.

Charles Lang Freer

Charles Lang Freer
Author: Lee Glazer
Publisher: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Smithsonian
Total Pages: 334
Release: 1984
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780934686426

Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) was a shrewd businessman, world traveler, self-taught aesthete, and a highly disciplined collector whose enduring legacy was the museum on the National Mall that bears his name: the Freer Gallery of Art, the first art museum of the Smithsonian. This richly illustrated narrative tells the story of Freer's humble beginnings in Kingston, New York, his rise to prominence in the railroad manufacturing industry in Detroit, and his transformation from capitalist to connoisseur of both Asian and American art. Other sections of the book explore Freer's friendships with artists, the decorative transformation of his home in Detroit, and his quest for masterpieces from Turkey to Tokyo. Drawing on Freer's voluminous correspondence and personal papers, the book frames Freer's biography against the background of Gilded Age culture and the rise of America as an international power in the early decades of the twentieth century.

Prison School, Vol. 21

Prison School, Vol. 21
Author: Akira Hiramoto
Publisher: Yen Press LLC
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2019-02-26
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1975330102

The Shadow Student Council vs. Official Student Council Shoulder Wars competition begins, and the losers' side must disband! Vastly outnumbered, Mari's odds of winning are long, even with a partially resurrected Meiko to bolster their forces. To save the Shadow Student Council (and his date with Chiyo), Kiyoshi must rise to the occasion, fighting the army Kate has amassed...by going full mast!

The Japanese Buddhist World Map

The Japanese Buddhist World Map
Author: D. Max Moerman
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2021-12-31
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0824890051

From the fourteenth through the nineteenth centuries Japanese monks created hundreds of maps to construct and locate their place in a Buddhist world. This expansively illustrated volume is the first to explore the largely unknown archive of Japanese Buddhist world maps and analyze their production, reproduction, and reception. In examining these fascinating sources of visual and material culture, author D. Max Moerman argues for an alternative history of Japanese Buddhism—one that compels us to recognize the role of the Buddhist geographic imaginary in a culture that encompassed multiple cartographic and cosmological world views. The contents and contexts of Japanese Buddhist world maps reveal the ambivalent and shifting position of Japan in the Buddhist world, its encounter and negotiation with foreign ideas and technologies, and the possibilities for a global history of Buddhism and science. Moerman’s visual and intellectual history traces the multiple trajectories of Japanese Buddhist world maps, beginning with the earliest extant Japanese map of the world: a painting by a fourteenth-century Japanese monk charting the cosmology and geography of India and Central Asia based on an account written by a seventh-century Chinese pilgrim-monk. He goes on to discuss the cartographic inclusion and marginal position of Japan, the culture of the copy and the power of replication in Japanese Buddhism, and the transcultural processes of engagement and response to new visions of the world produced by Iberian Christians, Chinese Buddhists, and the Japanese maritime trade. Later chapters explore the transformations in the media and messages of Buddhist cartography in the age of print culture and in intellectual debates during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries over cosmology and epistemology and the polemics of Buddhist science. The Japanese Buddhist World Map offers a wholly innovative picture of Japanese Buddhism that acknowledges the possibility of multiple and heterogeneous modernities and alternative visions of Japan and the world.

The Sea and the Sacred in Japan

The Sea and the Sacred in Japan
Author: Fabio Rambelli
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2018-07-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1350062871

The Sea and the Sacred in Japan is the first book to focus on the role of the sea in Japanese religions. While many leading Shinto deities tend to be understood today as unrelated to the sea, and mountains are considered the privileged sites of sacredness, this book provides new ways to understand Japanese religious culture and history. Scholars from North America, Japan and Europe explore the sea and the sacred in relation to history, culture, politics, geography, worldviews and cosmology, space and borders, and ritual practices and doctrines. Examples include Japanese indigenous conceptualizations of the sea from the Middle Ages to the 20th century; ancient sea myths and rituals; sea deities and sea cults; the role of the sea in Buddhist cosmology; and the international dimension of Japanese Buddhism and its maritime imaginary.