THE CONCEPT OF DANZŌ: ‘Sandalwood Images’ in Japanese Buddhist Sculpture of the 8th to 14th Centuries
THE CONCEPT OF DANZŌ: ‘Sandalwood Images’ in Japanese Buddhist Sculpture of the 8th to 14th Centuries, by Christian Boehm, is a new title in Saffron Asian Art and Society Series. Buy this book. Download press release This lavishly illustrated volume is the first study in a Western language to examine Buddhist sculptures known as danzō (sandalwood images) and dangan (portable sandalwood shrines) in Japan from the 8th to 14th centuries,...
An Eternal Cycle: Paradise and Purgatory at Mokspace
An Eternal Cycle: Paradise and Purgatory at London’s Mokspace features the work of Korean artists Park Seo Young and Lyoo Song Nyeo who paint in the style of devotional paintings still found in the Buddhist temples of Korea and other countries, writes SAJID RIZVI. The exhibition (14 October-10 November 2011) refers to an almost universal notion that death remains, for most part, a mystery to all living beings before they meet...
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