RT Book
T1 Entering the Dharmadhātu: a study of the Gandavyūha reliefs of Borobudur
T2 Studies in Asian art and archaeology
JF Studies in Asian art and archaeology
A1 Fontein, Jan 1927-2017
LA English
PP Leiden Boston
PB Brill
YR 2012
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/672283077
AB "The Gandavyūha, a sacred text of Mahāyāna Buddhism, is an allegorical tale of the pilgrimage of a youth named Sudhana, who visits fifty-three spiritual mentors to receive their instruction in the Conduct of the Bodhisattva. His miraculous journey on the path towards Enlightenment inspired the sculptors of Borobudur (9th century C.E.) to illustrate the tale in 460 bas-reliefs on the higher galleries of this great Javanese monument. During the 1920s N.J. Krom and F.D.K. Bosch identified many of the panels, but most of their findings, written in Dutch, remained unnoticed. Entering the Dharmadhātu compares the complete set of panels with three early Chinese translations of Central Asian and Indian Sanskrit manuscripts of the Gandavyūha. This first identification of the entire series in English concludes with a discussion of the new perspectives on the meaning, symbolism, and architecture of Borobudur that a reading of the Gandavyūha suggests."--Publisher's description
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN NB1280
SN 9789004211223
SN 9004211225
K1 Borobudur (Temple : Magelang, Indonesia)
K1 Tripiṭaka : Sūtrapiṭaka : Avataṃsakasūtra : Gaṇḍavyūha
K1 Buddhist relief (Sculpture) : Indonesia : Magelang : Themes, motives
K1 Bas-relief : Indonesia : Magelang : Themes, motives