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Indian Buddhist Art and the East Asian Vantage Point: A Historiographical Overview of the Search for Amitābha

  • 불교학리뷰
  • Abbr : Critical Review for Buddhist Studies
  • 2023, (34), pp.9-50
  • Publisher : Geumgang Center for Buddhist Studies
  • Research Area : Humanities > Buddhist Studies
  • Received : July 27, 2023
  • Accepted : October 12, 2023
  • Published : October 31, 2023

Rhi, Juhyung 1

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ABSTRACT

In the scholarship that spans more than a century, Indian Buddhist art has been studied under diverse premises as well as preconceptions. A considerable part of them has been derived from the scholarship on the traditions of East Asia where a greater amount of evidence in textual and epigraphical materials for Buddhist images is preserved and the creation of Buddhist visual objects continued with a much longer history right up to the modern time. In these circumstances, the knowledge from East Asian sources often played an important role, sometimes implicitly, in exploring and elucidating Indian Buddhist art, and the knowledge of the situation in East Asia was frequently projected to that of earlier India as its precedents or parallels. This paper will examine some of the notable aspects of this prominent phenomenon and its ramifications on the scholarship of Indian Buddhist art with a special focus on the exploration of Amitābha Buddha in Indian Buddhist art.

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