Description: Mount Wutai : Visions of a Sacred Buddhist Mountain, Hardcover by Chou, Wen-shing, ISBN 069117864X, ISBN-13 9780691178646, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US
The northern Chinese mountain range of Mount Wutai has been a preeminent site of international pilgrimage for over a millennium. Home to more than one hundred temples, the entire range is considered a Buddhist paradise on earth, and has received visitors ranging from emperors to monastic and lay devotees. Mount Wutai explores how Qing Buddhist rulers and clerics from Inner Asia, including Manchus, Tibetans, and Mongols, reimagined the mountain as their own during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Wen-Shing Chou examines a wealth of original source materials in multiple languages and media--many never before published or translated—such as temple replicas, pilgrimage guides, hagiographic representations, and panoramic maps. She shows how literary, artistic, and architectural depictions of the mountain permanently transformed the sites religious landscape and redefined Inner Asias relations with China. Chou addresses the pivotal but previously unacknowledged history of artistic and intellectual exchange between the varying religious, linguistic, and cultural traditions of the region. The reimagining of Mount Wutai was a fluid endeavor that proved central to the cosmopolitanism of the Qing Empire, and the mountain range became a unique site of shared diplomacy, trade, and religious devotion between different constituents, as well as a spiritual bridge between China and Tibet.
A compelling exploration of the changing meaning and significance of one of the worlds great religious sites, Mount Wutai offers an important new framework for understanding Buddhist sacred geography.
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Book Title: Mount Wutai : Visions of a Sacred Buddhist Mountain
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Mount Wutai : Visions of a Sacred Buddhist Mountain
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication Year: 2018
Subject: Asian / General, Buddhism / General (See Also Philosophy / Buddhist), History / General
Item Height: 0.9 in
Item Weight: 44.1 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Art, Religion
Author: Wen-Shing Chou
Item Length: 11.7 in
Item Width: 8.3 in
Format: Hardcover
