Plotting the Prince: Shotoku Cults and the Mapping of Medieval Japanese Buddhism
Plotting the Prince: Shotoku Cults and the Mapping of Medieval Japanese Buddhism
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绘制王子：圣德教和中世纪日本佛教的映射
DOI：
10.21313/hawaii/9780824834630.001.0001
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2012
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K. Carr
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K. Carr
《绘制王子》追溯了通过讲述圣德王子（573？-）的故事而创建的世界概念地图的发展。622？），被认为是日本佛教创始人的杰出政治家。它分析了他在神圣景观中的地位和献给他的个人崇拜的物质遗物，重点是从10世纪到14世纪创造的艺术。这本书不仅询问了圣德是谁，还询问了他的生活图像如何服务于中世纪早期日本信徒的需求。即使在今天，《圣德经》仍然让人想起一个半真实、半神话的人物形象，他体现了最高的政治、社会和宗教理想。在他去世后大约四个世纪的故事中，这项研究追溯了圣德在艺术中神圣人物的起源和发展，以说明他们与四天王寺和法隆寺等主要宗教中心的联系。它认为，地图和讲故事是姐妹行为-都以微妙但令人信服的方式构建世界-结合在Shotoku生活的视觉叙事中，以塑造宗教合法性，社区历史和神圣地理的概念。《王子的阴谋》引入了许多新的材料，并提出了挑衅性的解释，呼吁艺术史学家重新思考叙事和邪教意象的基本概念。它为社会和政治历史学家提供了一个在地方和国家层面上创建社区身份的纹理，宗教学者以一种全新的方式理解教义和实践的关键发展，而那些研究过去的人则通常是视觉圣徒传优先于文本传统的明显例子。
Plotting the Prince traces the development of conceptual maps of the world created through the telling of stories about Prince Shotoku (573?-622?), an eminent statesman who is credited with founding Buddhism in Japan. It analyses his place in the sacred landscape and the material relics of the cult of personality dedicated to him, focusing on the art created from the tenth to fourteenth centuries. The book asks not only who Shotoku was, but also how images of his life served the needs of devotees in early medieval Japan. Even today Shotoku evokes images of a half-real, half-mythical figure who embodied the highest political, social, and religious ideals. Taking up his story about four centuries after his death, this study traces the genesis and progression of Shotoku's sacred personas in art to illustrate their connection to major religious centres such as Shitenno-ji and Horyu-ji. It argues that mapping and storytelling are sister acts--both structuring the world in subtle but compelling ways--that combined in visual narratives of Shotoku's life to shape conceptions of religious legitimacy, communal history, and sacred geography. Plotting the Prince introduces much new material and presents provocative interpretations that call upon art historians to rethink fundamental conceptions of narrative and cultic imagery. It offers social and political historians a textured look at the creation of communal identities on both local and state levels, scholars of religion a substantially new way of understanding key developments in doctrine and practice, and those studying the past in general a clear instance of visual hagiography taking precedence over the textual tradition.