Dear friends and members of the Fellowship,
Sorry for the late reminder.
We have canceled our room and hybrid plans and will
meet only on ZOOM.
Feb 13th 3:00 to 5:00
Speaker: Michael Conway
Topic:
Buddhist
Patriarchs Depicted on Early Jodo-Shin Sect Devotional Scrolls
In the thirteenth and
fourteenth centuries in Japan, Kōmyō
honzon 光明本尊 paintings played an important role as both objects of
devotion during worship services and as teaching aids to relay central ideas
of the tradition centered on the Buddha Amida and rebirth in the Paradise
Pure Land that Shinran 親鸞 (1173-1262) set
forth for his followers. The scrolls contain images [sometimes called imaginary
portraits] of the line of great teachers or patriarchs who were important
in the development of the Pure Land tradition from its roots in India and China
to Japan.
We can see by examining
a scroll how these patriarchs were transformed through choices that were
made to codify their pictorial representations , but also in the choices
of the quotations from each that are included.
These
depictions tell us about important aspects of faith and
proselytization in these early centuries.
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