Zen and Material Culture
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 18 January 2018
- ISBN 9780190469290
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages352 pages
- Size 160x239x22 mm
- Weight 646 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Expanding on previous studies of Zen art history, material/visual culture, and religious practice, Zen and Material Culture focuses on the vast range of "stuff" in Japanese Zen, including beads, bowls, buildings, staffs, statues, rags, robes and even popular retail commodities distributed in America.
MoreLong description:
The stereotype of Zen Buddhism as a minimalistic or even immaterial meditative tradition persists in the Euro-American cultural imagination. This volume calls attention to the vast range of "stuff" in Zen by highlighting the material abundance and iconic range of the Sōtō, Rinzai, and Ōbaku sects in Japan. Chapters on beads, bowls, buildings, staffs, statues, rags, robes, and even retail commodities in America all shed new light on overlooked items of lay and monastic practice in both historical and contemporary perspectives. Nine authors from the cognate fields of art history, religious studies, and the history of material culture analyze these "Zen matters" in all four senses of the phrase: the interdisciplinary study of Zen's matters (objects and images) ultimately speaks to larger Zen matters (ideas, ideals) that matter (in the predicate sense) to both male and female practitioners, often because such matters (economic considerations) help to ensure the cultural and institutional survival of the tradition.
Zen and Material Culture expands the study of Japanese Zen Buddhism to include material inquiry as an important complement to mainly textual, institutional, or ritual studies. It also broadens the traditional purview of art history by incorporating the visual culture of everyday Zen objects and images into the canon of recognized masterpieces by elite artists. Finally, the volume extends Japanese material and visual cultural studies into new research territory by taking up Zen's rich trove of materia liturgica and supplementing the largely secular approach to studying Japanese popular culture. This groundbreaking volume will be a resource for anyone whose interests lie at the intersection of Zen art, architecture, history, ritual, tea ceremony, women's studies, and the fine line between Buddhist materiality and materialism.
Winfield and Heine have done a good job in all respects: the book is not only very well edited but it is likely to become a must read for scholars and students willing to approach critically this Buddhist tradition.
Table of Contents:
Contributors
Chronology
Abbreviations
Introduction to Zen Matters
"Thy Rod and Thy Staff They Discomfort Me:" Zen Staffs As Implements of Instruction
Materializing the Zen Monastery
Form and Function: Tea Bowls and the Problem of Zen in Chanoyu
Prayer Beads in Sōtō Zen
The Importance of Imports: Ingen's Material Culture at Manpukuji
Visual Culture in Japan's Imperial Rinzai Buddhist Convents: The Making of Devotional Objects as Expressions of Religious Devotion and Practice
Golden Robe or Rubbish Robe? Interpretations of the Transmitted Robe in Tokugawa Period Zen Buddhist Thought
The Zen of Rags
Zen Sells Zen Things: Meditation Supply, Right Livelihood, and Buddhist Retail
Sino-Japanese Glossary
Index
