The Translation of Life: Thinking of Painting in Indian Buddhist Literature

What are paintings? Is there a distinctive mode of experience paintings enable? What is the value of such experience? This essay explores such questions, confining attention for the most part to a few distinctive moments in Indian Buddhist texts. In particular, I focus on invocations of painting in...

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Main Author: Sonam Kachru
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-09-01
Series:Religions
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/11/9/467