Connecting the Art, Literature, and Religion of South and Central Asia: Studies in Honour of Monika Zin
About the Book
This volume is dedicated to Prof. Dr. Monika Zin, an outstanding art historian of international standing in the field of early Buddhist art of South and Central Asia. In her numerous publications, she examines art objects and their iconography in connection with literary sources, cultural, religious, and historical backgrounds, as well as the transregional networks of the early Buddhist world concealed behind them. She thus opens up many new exciting perspectives and scholarly questions. With this volume, the editors and numerous authors from many countries around the world, whose works have been inspired in many ways by the scholarly work of Monika Zin, honour the jubilarian with a rich collection of contributions on the art, literature, and religion of South and Central Asia.
- Author: Ines Konczak-Nagel; Satomi Hiyama and Astrid Klein (editors)
- Publisher: Dev Publishers & Distributors
- Edition: First
- Year: 2022
- Dimension: 21.5 x 28 cm
- No. of Pages: 448
- Weight: 2200 gm
- ISBN: 9789387496736
- Binding: Hardcover
- Territory: World
- Price: ₹ 9995
About the Author
Ines Konczak-Nagel is a research associate in the project “Buddhist Murals of Kucha on the Northern Silk Road” at the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig and graduated in Indian Art History at Freie Universität Berlin. She received her PhD from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich for a thesis on representations of the prophecy of Śākyamuni’s Buddhahood in the wall paintings of modern Xinjiang, worked at the Museum für Asiatische Kunst in Berlin, and taught South and Central Asian Art History at the Leipzig University. Konczak-Nagel has contributed to studies on the Buddhist art in Kucha and Turfan.
Satomi Hiyama, assistant professor, at the Hakubi Center for Advanced Research and Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University, and an external colleague of the research group “Buddhist Murals of Kucha on the Northern Silk Road” at the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, is an art-historian focusing on the wall paintings of Buddhist caves in Eastern Silk Road in the 5–6th centuries. She received her PhD from the Freie Universität Berlin in 2014. Her dissertation focused on the wall paintings of Kizil Cave 207. She has published several iconographical studies on the wall paintings in Kucha and Dunhuang.
Astrid Klein is a PhD student at the Universität Leipzig and has a doctoral research position at the academy project “Buddhist Murals of Kucha on the Northern Silk Road” at the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig. She holds a BA in Sinology (2013) and a MA in East Asian art history (2016) from the Freie Universität Berlin. Klein’s research interests include the donor images of the wall paintings of Kucha, clothing history, early medieval textiles, and pattern techniques, as well as the exchange of visual and material culture via the Silk Road.
Table of Contents
Connecting the Art, Literature, and Religion of South and Central Asia
Studies in Honour of Monika Zin
Edited by
Ines Konczak-Nagel, Satomi Hiyama, and Astrid Klein
***TABLE OF CONTENTS***
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i
Tabula Gratulatoria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
Monika Zin: Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .vii
Christoph Anderl
An Initial Survey of the Iconography of Yúlín Cave 33: With an Emphasis on the Tableau
Depicting Māras’s Attack and Temptation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Otabek Y. Aripdjanov
Discovery and Preservation of Wall Paintings from the Buddhist Monuments of Old Termez,
Southern Uzbekistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23
Stefan Baums
Two Inscribed Seals from Gandhara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
Osmund Bopearachchi
“The Well-Farer of the world is not easily led away”: Revisiting the Paintings of the Mahā-
rājaleṇa of the Dambulla Raja Mahāvihāra (Sri Lanka) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37
Chang Wen-ling
Regionale Besonderheiten in den jātaka-Darstellungen Zentralasiens . . . . . . . . . . . . .51
Max Deeg
An Unromantic Approach: Dhyānagupta’s (aka Jñānagupta) Fo-benxing-ji-jing . . . . . . . .61
Caren Dreyer
Überlieferung über die Reste der Sternbildhöhle – Sängim 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73
Jorinde Ebert
Some Visual Symbols and Metaphors for the Buddha’s parinirvāṇa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .87
Marion Frenger
Reaching the Skies, Governing Time: Sun and Moon as Attributes of Indian Deities . . . . . . 105
Adalbert J. Gail
Der Buddha auf dem Schlangenthron in der Kunst der Khmer: Eine neuerliche Betrachtung
des wichtigsten Buddha-Bildes der Angkor-Periode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Mariachiara Gasparini
Collars and Wing Sleeves as Marks of Buddhist Royal Patronage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Hiromi Habata
Das Buddha-Reliquiar auf dem Kopf: Eine buddhistische Idee zwischen Kunst und Philoso-
phie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Muhammad Hameed & Muhammad Hassan Khokhar
Contextualising the Spread of Buddhism beyond Gandhara in the Light of the Newly Dis-
covered Fragment of a ’Portable Shrine’ Type Buddhist Diptych from Southern Punjab . . . . 145
Jens-Uwe Hartmann
Trauer um die Großmutter und Trost vom Buddha: Das Āryikā-sūtra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Haiyan Hu-von Hinüber & Luo Wenhua
Two Newly Found Bronze Statues with Sanskrit Inscription Originating from Historical
Northwest India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Christiane Kalantari
Feminine, Wise, Divine: Māyādevī, the Buddha’s Wondrous Mother, in Early Western Tibetan
Temples’ Narrative Cycles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Petra Kieffer-Pülz
The Owner of a Residential Building or Monastery ( sāmi[ ka], āvāsasāmika, vihārasāmi[ ka])
in the Theravāda Tradition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Gerald Kozicz
Nidhi s, Śabaras and the Northern Passage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Patrick Krüger
Bhadrāsana und der vierfache Jina: Anmerkungen zur Symbolik jinistischer ayāgapaṭa s . . . 209
Zhen Liu
Das Maitreyavyākaraṇāvadāna (Nr. 16) in der Bodhisattvāvadānakalpalatā . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Ciro Lo Muzio
Some Remarks on Rawak (Khotan Oasis, Xinjiang): The Stūpa, Clay Sculptures and Wall
Paintings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Melanie Malzahn
New Light on Vedic rodasī ‘Heaven and Earth’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Dieter Maue
On gaṇḍı and granthi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Gerd J. R. Mevissen
How Budha, the Planet Mercury, Became an Enlightened Buddha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Akira Miyaji
Aspects of Mahāyāna Buddhist Art in Gandhara: Focusing on the Iconography of Steles of
the Triad Type and Emanation Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Jessie Pons
Would You like Some Wine? Remarks on a Revelling Scene from Zar-dheri . . . . . . . . . . 281
Andy Rotman
When Is a Fool Not a Fool? Learning from Panthaka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
Lilla Russell-Smith
Traces of Indian Astrology in the Nakṣatra Cave in Sengim and in the Turfan Region: First
Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
Richard Salomon
Tracing Donations to Buddhist Monasteries in Texts and Inscriptions: Kizil, Balochistan,
Termez . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
Arcangela Santoro
Haṃsa: Flying Geese at Kizil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
Gregory Schopen
Attitudes Toward the Wealth and Comfort of Monks and Monasteries in a Buddhist Monastic
Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353
Natchapol Sirisawad
Iconography of the Buddha Images of the Śrāvastī Miracles in the Art of Dvaravati . . . . . . 365
Peter Skilling (Bhadra Rujirathat)
Tapussa and Bhallika in Thai Painting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377
Katsumi Tanabe
Smiling Buddhas from Gandhara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391
Tadashi Tanabe
Symbolism of the Grape in Early Indian Buddhist Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403
Tianshu Zhu
Revisiting the Dīpaṃkara Story in Gandharan Buddhist Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415
Peter Zieme
Avalokiteśvara mit altuigurischen Inschriften aus der Bäzäklik-Grotte 46 . . . . . . . . . . . 431