BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Freer Gallery of Art -- Exhibit: Spreading the Word: Buddhist Art in Japan

DC -- Freer Gallery of Art -- Exhibit: Spreading the Word: Buddhist Art in Japan:

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Description of Pictures: Spreading the Word: Buddhist Art in Japan
May 18, 2018 – November 12, 2018
For centuries after the Historical Buddha’s death, his followers continued to share his teachings, the dharma. Crossing land and sea, disciples, monks, and pilgrims carried the dharma from its origins in India across Asia. Even before the teachings were in written form, the talks and sermons of these charismatic messengers planted the seeds of Buddhism in distant cultures. Over a thousand years later, in the sixth century, monks from Korea and China brought the dharma to Japan.
This exhibition highlights a few of the devout Buddhists who were revered for their roles as teachers, scholars, and patrons of Buddhism in Japan. Among them is a prince who was later worshiped as an incarnation of a bodhisattva. These religious leaders also include priests who journeyed vast distances to seek great teachers, to introduce Buddhist schools from China, and to express spiritual ideas through scholarship, calligraphy, and painting. Their movement across borders created particular synergy between Chinese and Japanese literature, art, architecture, and tea drinking, a practice that began in Zen monasteries to aid meditation.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. SIFGSW_180620_001.JPG: Buddhist Art in Japan Spreading the Word For centuries after the Historical Buddha's death, his followers continued to share his teachings, the dharma. Crossing land and sea, disciples, monks, and pilgrims carried the dharma from its origins in India across Asia. Even before the teachings were in written form, the talks and sermons of these charismatic messengers planted the seeds of Buddhism in distant cultures. Over a thousand years later, in the sixth century, monks from Korea and China brought the dharma to Japan. This exhibition highlights a few of the devout Buddhists who were revered for their roles as teachers, scholars, and patrons of Buddhism in Japan. Among them is a prince who was later worshiped as an incarnation of a bodhisattva. These religious leaders also include priests who journeyed vast distances to seek great teachers, to introduce Buddhist schools from China, and to express spiritual ideas through scholarship, calligraphy, and painting. Their movement across borders created particular synergy between Chinese and Japanese literature, art, architecture, and tea drinking, a practice that began in Zen monasteries to aid meditation.
2. SIFGSW_180620_008.JPG: Zen Buddhist Comes to Japan
3. SIFGSW_180620_016.JPG: Bokuseki: Calligraphy by Zen Masters
4. SIFGSW_180620_022.JPG: Obaku Zen Comes to Japan
5. SIFGSW_180620_030.JPG: China's Imagined Wilds
6. SIFGSW_180620_048.JPG: Personal Practices of Buddhist Priests
7. SIFGSW_180620_097.JPG: A Human Bodhisattva
8. SIFGSW_180620_111.JPG: Personal Practices of Buddhist Priests
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