GRAVE: Gandharan Relic rituals And Veneration Explored

坟墓：犍陀罗遗物仪式和崇拜探索

• 批准号: EP/Y031008/1
• 负责人: Ashwini Lakshminarayanan
• 金额: $ 25.55万
• 依托单位: CARDIFF UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FY031008%2F1
• 关键词: GRAVE; Gandharan; Relic; rituals; Veneration

Relics of the Buddha and prominent renunciates were at the heart of Buddhism. The religion, introduced from Central India in the third century BCE to parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan, became strongly embedded in the socio-political fabric of the Kushan kingdom from the first till the fourth century CE. Through the synergies between art history, religious studies, philology and archaeology, GRAVE proposes to provide a comprehensive understanding of the conceptualization of relic veneration in Gandhara art between the 1st and the 4th centuries CE. Building an image database identifying the types of relics, figures, actions and ritual accoutrements as a basis, GRAVE contextualises the visual material in its socio-religious context by analysing contemporary Gandhari relic donative inscriptions and later Chinese accounts of relic veneration in the region. GRAVE is timely as it moves beyond traditional analysis of forms that end in an aesthetic interplay of artistic styles and towards the connection between art and socio-religious praxis. GRAVE will also survey Buddhist practitioners and visitors of leading UK museum collections of Gandharan art to understand their perception of relic rituals. For the first time, GRAVE will explore repetition, performativity, and ritual communication related to Gandharan relics in a systematic way while simultaneously understanding the perception of Buddhist relics by modern followers.The training of Ashwini Lakshminarayanan as an experienced researcher at Cardiff University will ensue along these interdisciplinary lines in tune with the objectives of GRAVE. The detailed scientific and career development objectives with a complete integration within the School of History, Archaeology and Religion (SHARE at CU) and a secondment at the DiGA project (Center for Religious Studies at Ruhr-Universität Bochum) will guarantee mutual beneficial success for the host and the partner organisations and ensure high employability for the researcher.

佛陀的遗物和杰出的出家者是佛教的核心。这种宗教于公元前三世纪从印度中部传入巴基斯坦和阿富汗的部分地区，从公元一世纪到公元四世纪，它在贵霜王国的社会政治结构中根深蒂固。通过艺术史、宗教研究、文献学和考古学之间的协同作用，GRAVE提出了对公元1世纪至4世纪犍陀罗艺术中遗物崇拜概念的全面理解。GRAVE建立了一个图像数据库，以识别文物、人物、动作和仪式装备的类型为基础，通过分析当代甘地遗物捐赠铭文和后来中国对该地区文物崇拜的描述，将视觉材料置于其社会宗教背景下。GRAVE是及时的，因为它超越了传统的形式分析，以艺术风格的审美相互作用结束，并走向艺术与社会宗教实践之间的联系。GRAVE还将调查佛教从业者和英国主要博物馆犍陀罗艺术藏品的游客，以了解他们对遗物仪式的看法。GRAVE将首次以系统的方式探索与犍陀罗遗物相关的重复、表演和仪式交流，同时了解现代追随者对佛教遗物的感知。Ashwini Lakshminarayanan作为卡迪夫大学经验丰富的研究员的培训将沿着这些跨学科的路线进行，与GRAVE的目标保持一致。详细的科学和职业发展目标，与历史，考古和宗教学院（CU的SHARE）完全整合，并借调到DiGA项目（Ruhr-Universität波鸿宗教研究中心），将确保东道国和合作伙伴组织的互利成功，并确保研究人员的高就业能力。