peterromaskiewicz.bsky.social
Historian of Chinese Religions & Chinese Buddhism, interest in smell culture & aromatics; recent hummingbird whisper, belated powerlifter, curator of Buddhas in the West Material Archive @buddhasinthewest.bsky.social
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I don’t know if Google can top this, their finest work to date
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I don’t trust no fire foxes neither! 😆
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knew him. Presuming nothing nefarious, I wonder if the early 1930s depression motivated some temples to sell off objects to art dealers like Yamanaka. Curious story, nonetheless, of the icon leaving Japan.
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The article refers to the art dealer as Mr. Yamanaka, this must be Yamanaka Sadajirō. His family was Osaka-based art dealers who opened stores around the US & world staring in NYC in 1894. Yamanaka & Co. helped build out many of the largest US collections of Japanese art, not surprising Sedgwick
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I've made a Heart Sutra pagoda in the past too! It's a great project & fun to follow the text up and down through the pagoda.
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Love this, this is so cool!
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Here's a different Heart Sutra Pagoda (Xinjing ta 心經塔) also from Dunhuang. The same pattern is followed (starting at green arrow). The dotted lines show the proper sequence of reading before closing the loop and starting again.
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Yes! Pictorial Heart Sutras are still being printed and used, I was able to see one few years ago, at the time I had no idea what it was!
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For more on the "rebus sutra" genre, see Charlottle Eubanks' "Reading by Heart: Translated Buddhism and the Pictorial Heart Sutras of Early Modern Japan" (2013).
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Here's a different Japanese Buddhist text rendered into pictures. This one combines the picture and text.
E.g. the "demon mask" is pronounced hannya. This is also how you pronounce the paired text 般若, which means "wisdom" (Sanskrit: prajñā)
librarysearch.williams.edu/discovery/de...
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This is a Buddhist robe known as a kasaya. It would be wrapped around the body, over the left shoulder and under the right arm. A clasp or ties would keep it in place.
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FYI: There's a really wonderful birding photography feed on Bluesky (Birds! 🦉), if you request to be added when you post photos with a 🪶 they will be added to the feed.
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Yes, Michael Owens and Holen Kahn.
If you've never seen Holen's finished doc on the 2005 Woodenfish program, here's a link:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY2u...
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Yes, I was a member of the staff in 2005!
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Short history of the museum: www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture...
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Manuscript viewable at University of British Columbia:
open.library.ubc.ca/collections/...