Ghosts in the Mists: the visual and the visualized in Chinese Buddhist Art, ca. 1178

• Philip E. Bloom ^[1]
  1. [1] Indiana University, Bloomington
• Localización: Art bulletin, ISSN 0004-3079, Vol. 98, Nº 3, 2016, págs. 297-320
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • "Water-Lans Retreat", a late twelfth-century Chinese Buddhist painting crafted for use in large-scale offering rituals, depicts the liminal moment of ghosts' manifestation during a nocturnal liturgy of spectral salvation. Taking inspiration from the sensory dimensions of ritual performance and making use of a sophisticated stratigraphy of pigmentation, the painting leads the viewer-worshipper from consideration of external acts of offering and recitation to contemplation of internal visualizations performed solely in the minds of meditating monks. The viewer-workshipper is thus awakened to the multisensory matrix of ritual that unites liturgical art, text, and performance.