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Buddhism --- Buddhist arts --- Japan --- Buddhist influences.

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"Faith and Power in Japanese Buddhist Art explores the transformation of Buddhism from the premodern to the contemporary era in Japan and the central role its visual culture has played in this transformation. Although Buddhism is generally regarded as peripheral to modern Japanese society, this book demonstrates otherwise. Its chapters elucidate the thread of change over time in the practice of Buddhism as revealed in temple worship halls and other sites of devotion and in imagery representing the religion’s most popular deities and religious practices. It also introduces the work of modern and contemporary artists who are not generally associated with institutional Buddhism and its canonical visual requirements but whose faith inspires their art.The author makes a persuasive argument that the neglect of these materials by scholars results from erroneous presumptions about the aesthetic superiority of early Japanese Buddhist artifacts and an asserted decline in the institutional power of the religion after the sixteenth century. She demonstrates that recent works constitute a significant contribution to the history of Japanese art and architecture, providing evidence of Buddhism’s compelling presence at all levels of Japanese society and its evolution in response to the needs of new generations of supporters." -- Publisher's description.

Buddhism - Japan - History - 1600-1868. --- Buddhism - Japan - History - 1868-1945. --- Buddhism - Japan - History - 1945 --- -Buddhist arts - Japan. --- Buddhist arts --- Buddhism --- Arts, Buddhist --- Arts --- History

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Spirituality in architecture --- Buddhist arts --- Zen Buddhism --- Spiritualité en architecture --- Arts bouddhiques --- Bouddhisme zen --- Andō, Tadao,

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Indian religions --- Buddhism --- Buddhist arts --- 294.3 <03> --- 294.3 <03> Boeddhisme--(algemeen)--Naslagwerken. Referentiewerken --- 294.3 <03> Boeddhisme:--verder in te delen zoals 291.1/.8--Naslagwerken. Referentiewerken --- Boeddhisme--(algemeen)--Naslagwerken. Referentiewerken --- Boeddhisme:--verder in te delen zoals 291.1/.8--Naslagwerken. Referentiewerken --- Arts, Buddhist --- Arts --- Buddhism - Dictionaries --- Buddhist arts - Dictionaries

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The tea ceremony and the martial arts are intimately linked in the popular and historical imagination with Zen Buddhism, and Japanese culture. They are commonly interpreted as religio-aesthetic pursuits which express core spiritual values through bodily gesture and the creation of highly valued objects. Ideally, the experience of practising the Zen arts culminates in enlightenment.
This book challenges that long-held view and proposes that the Zen arts should be understood as part of a literary and visual history of representing Japanese culture through the arts. Cox argues that these texts

Aesthetics, Japanese. --- Japan -- Civilization -- Zen influences. --- Zen arts -- Japan. --- J1895 --- J1880 --- J6020 --- Japan: Religion -- Buddhism -- art --- Japan: Religion -- Buddhism -- Zen --- Japan: Art and antiquities -- Japanese aesthetics (Japonism) --- Zen arts --- Japan --- Civilization --- Zen influences. --- Japanese aesthetics --- Arts, Zen --- Buddhist arts