Transmitting the Forms of Divinity: Early Buddhist Art from Korea and Japan

New York, New York: Japan Society, 2003. Hardcover. VG+/VG+. Brown cloth over boards; color pictorial dj, brown spine with white lettering. 384 pp. 275 plates and figures, 160 bw and 115 color. Accompanied an exhibition at the Japan Society Gallery, New York; Includes extensive information about early Buddhist art, including murals, sculpture, architecture and more; Beautifully illustrated. Contents as follows: Preface / William Clark, Jr. and Donald Gregg -- Foreword and Acknowledgements / Alexandra Munroe -- Introduction: The Transmission and Transformation of Early Buddhist Culture in Korea and Japan / Jonathan Best -- From the Stone Buddhas of Longxingsi to Buddhist Images of Three Kingdoms Korea and Asuka-Hakuho Japan / Tanabe Saburosuke -- The Monastery Koryuji's "Crowned Maitreya" and the Stone Pensive Bodhisattva Excavated at Longxingsi / Onishi Shuya -- Early Korean Buddhist Sculptures and Related Japanese Examples: Iconographic and Stylistic Comparisons / Kim Lena -- Korean Gilt-Bronze Single Mandorla Buddha Triads and the Dissemination of East Asian Sculptural Style / Kwak Dong-seok -- Korean Elements in Japanese Pictorial Representation in the Early Asuka Period / Ariga Yoshitaka -- A New Theory: Ki as Represented in Koguryo Murals and Buddhist Haloes of the Three Kingdoms Period / Kang Woo-bang -- Todaiji's Great Buddha: Its Foundation in Buddhist Doctrine and Its Chinese and Korean Precedents / Konno Toshifumi -- Techniques of Early Buddhist Sculpture in Japan / Washizuka Hiromitsu -- The Monastery Hwangnyongsa and Buddhism of the Early Silla Period / Park Youngbok -- The Monastery Horyuji: Architectural Forms of Early Buddhism in Japan / Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt -- The Art of Avatamsaka Sutra in the Unified Silla Period: The Sanctuary of Sokkuram and Hwaom-kyong Pyonsangdo (Narrative Portrayal in the Avatamsaka Sutra) / Kang Woo-bang -- Early Korean and Japanese Reliquaries in Relation to Pagoda Architecture / Choi Eung-chon -- Buddhist Sculpture -- Sutras and Ritual Objects -- Tiles from Temples -- Roof Tiles of Korea's Three Kingdoms and Unified Silla Periods / Kim Song-gu -- Korean Influence and Japanese Innovation in Tiles of the Asuka-Hakuho Period / Mori Ikuo.