Friday, April 1, 4:30 to 6:30pm, CWAC156
Making Images of Dharma
Dongshan Zhang
Ph.D. Student, Art History, University of Chicago
To deal with the coming of the Final Dharma, or mofa, people initiated different types of projects around the Northern dynasty (439 – 589). The Buddhist images and stone engravings in the Xiangtangshan caves, Yunju temple, and in the mountains in central Shandong area are representatives. A few of the stone engravings found on the boulders and slopes of the mountains in Shandong are made with characters of unusually large size. This essay reconsiders the nature of the Northern dynasty Buddhist stone engravings in Shandong, and suggests that the preservation of images of dharma in the Final Dharma period was the true aim of the Shandong large-character engravings.
Friday, April 1, 4:30 to 6:30pm, CWAC156
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