Through sophisticated combinations of architecture, painting, sculpture, metalwork, and even garden design, worshippers throughout East Asia sought to create virtual Pure Lands within the spaces of their temples.

In medieval East Asia, Buddhism was often referred to as the “teaching of images,” and it was primarily through the exchange of portable images, both painted and sculpted, that the religion was transmitted to the region.

2024年10月28日 · Cheeyun Kwon unfurls this exquisite set of scrolls within the existing Ten Kings painting tradition while investigating textual, scriptural, archaeological, and visual materials from East Asia to shed light on its possible provenance.

The works in this gallery are among the finest Chinese and Korean Buddhist sculptures in any American collection. They are drawn largely from the collection of Grenville L. Winthrop (1864–1943), a Harvard graduate of eclectic aesthetic predilections who held a special interest in early Chinese art.

Drawing on the National Museum of Asian Art's collections and collecions from across the Smithsonian, artworks spanning two millennia reveal Asia's rich Buddhist heritage....

2017年10月14日 · Encountering the Buddha, an exhibition at the National Museum of Asian Art, explores Asia’s rich Buddhist heritage through more than two hundred artworks. It also shows how different schools based on the Buddha’s teachings developed over time.

Sacred scriptures that contain the teachings of the Buddha are known as sutras. The Lotus Sutra stands out among the many hundreds of sutras as arguably the most popular and best known of all Buddhist scriptures in East Asia. Originally composed in Idia in the first century CE, the Lotus Sutra reached Japan by the late sixthy century. ... Read more

There are much larger numbers of painted scenes surviving from more recent centuries, especially from South-East Asia. With the arrival of printing, book illustrations and posters continued the tradition. Some scenes became established subjects in Chinese and Japanese painting, and later prints.

Buddhism evolved the concept of a Buddha of the Future, Maitreya, depicted in art both as a Buddha clad in a monastic robe and as a princely bodhisattva before enlightenment. Gandharan artists made use of both stone and stucco to produce such images, which were placed in nichelike shrines around the stupa of a monastery.

East Asian Buddhism or East Asian Mahayana is a collective term for the schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism that developed across East Asia and which rely on the Chinese Buddhist canon.