On Buddhist art and antiquity.

Product Description: IS THE FIRST MAJOR STUDY OF THE BUDDHIST SCULPTURE FROM THE SITE IN MULTIPLE MEDIA LIKE STONE, METAL AND STUCCO.

Product Description: One of the most significant traditions of image-making in medieval Japanese Buddhist art is based on a large group of gilt-bronze icons representing the Buddha Amida and his two attendant Bodhisattvas. The prototype, a secret image enshrined at Zenkoji in Nagano Prefecture, served as the basis both for numerous replications found in temples throughout Japan and for a highly developed cult that promised believers various rewards, including release from the terrors of hell and ultimate salvation in the western paradise of Amida...read more