Wei-Cheng Lin

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Building a Sacred Mountain: The Buddhist Architecture of China's Mount WutaiHardcover, 1 May 2014

Building a Sacred Mountain: The Buddhist Architecture of China's Mount Wutai
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Print Length
344 pages
Language
English
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Date Published
1 May 2014
ISBN-10
0295993529
ISBN-13
9780295993522

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By the tenth century CE, Mount Wutai had become a major pilgrimage site within the emerging culture of a distinctively Chinese Buddhism. Famous as the abode of the bodhisattva Mañjuśrī (known for his habit of riding around the mountain on a lion), the site in northeastern China's Shanxi Province was transformed from a wild area, long believed by Daoists to be sacred, into an elaborate complex of Buddhist monasteries.

In Building a Sacred Mountain, Wei-Cheng Lin traces the confluence of factors that produced this transformation and argues that monastic architecture, more than texts, icons, relics, or pilgrimages, was the key to Mount Wutai's emergence as a sacred site. Departing from traditional architectural scholarship, Lin's interdisciplinary approach goes beyond the analysis of forms and structures to show how the built environment can work in tandem with practices and discourses to provide a space for encountering the divine.

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Product Details

Author:
Wei-Cheng Lin
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
1 May 2014
Dimensions:
26.37 x 18.59 x 2.67 cm
ISBN-10:
0295993529
ISBN-13:
9780295993522
Language:
English
Location:
Seattle
Pages:
344
Weight:
821 gm

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