Open AccessAlém das palavras de Gautama
Author(s) -
Fernando Carlos Chamas
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
estudos japoneses
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2447-7125
pISSN - 1413-8298
DOI - 10.11606/issn.2447-7125.v0i25p45-56
Subject(s) - gautama buddha , buddhism , statue , sculpture , extension (predicate logic) , sort , art , simple (philosophy) , art history , humanities , history , philosophy , computer science , archaeology , epistemology , information retrieval , programming language
The research of the Japanese Buddhist Sculpture, due to its complexity, demands a methodology scientifically able to sort out principles which could legitimize it as art. Through any Buddhist statue, even a simple one like “fat buddha’or Japanese buddhist temples masterpieces, it is aimed in this article to relate a web of iconographichistorical and legendary references whose extension exceeds the limits of western artistic conventionsthe restriction imposed by methodological cutting outs and the asiatic geographical frontiers.