The Japanese Buddhist world map: religious vision and the cartographic imagination

From the fourteenth through the nineteenth centuries Japanese monks created hundreds of maps to construct and locate their place in a Buddhist world. This expansively illustrated volume is the first to explore the largely unknown archive of Japanese Buddhist world maps and analyze their production,...

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1. Verfasser: Moerman, D. Max (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Honolulu University of Hawai'i Press [2022]
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Zusammenfassung:From the fourteenth through the nineteenth centuries Japanese monks created hundreds of maps to construct and locate their place in a Buddhist world. This expansively illustrated volume is the first to explore the largely unknown archive of Japanese Buddhist world maps and analyze their production, reproduction, and reception. In examining these fascinating sources of visual and material culture, author D. Max Moerman argues for an alternative history of Japanese Buddhism-one that compels us to recognize the role of the Buddhist geographic imaginary in a culture that encompassed multiple cartographic and cosmological world views. The contents and contexts of Japanese Buddhist world maps reveal the ambivalent and shifting position of Japan in the Buddhist world, its encounter and negotiation with foreign ideas and technologies, and the possibilities for a global history of Buddhism and science.
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (ix, 356 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9780824890056
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DOI:10.1515/9780824890056