Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “paul copp”
Skip side bar filters

  • The Body Incantatory

    Spells and the Ritual Imagination in Medieval Chinese Buddhism

    by Paul Copp ...
    Series series The Sheng Yen Series in Chinese Buddhist Studies
    Whether chanted as devotional prayers, intoned against the dangers of the wilds, or invoked to heal the sick and bring ease to the dead, incantations were pervasive features of Buddhist practice in late medieval China (600–1000 C.E.). Material incantations, in forms such as spell-inscribed amulets and stone pillars, were also central to the spiritual lives of both monks and laypeople. In centering ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

People who read this also enjoyed

  • Chinese Symbolism and Art Motifs Fourth Revised Edition

    A Comprehensive Handbook on Symbolism in Chinese Art Through the Ages

    by Charles Alfred Speed Williams ...
    Written with reader accessibility in mind, this comprehensive handbook of symbolism in Chinese art and culture will be an invaluable resource for any student of Eastern art history, Chinese arts and crafts, and anyone interested in commonly held Chinese beliefs and their origins.In Chinese Symbolism & Art Motifs Fourth Edition, scholar C.A.S. Williams offers concise explanations of the essential ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • The Porcelain Thief

    Searching the Middle Kingdom for Buried China

    by Huan Hsu ...
    A journalist travels throughout mainland China and Taiwan in search of his family’s hidden treasure and comes to understand his ancestry as he never has before.In 1938, when the Japanese arrived in Huan Hsu’s great-great-grandfather Liu’s Yangtze River hometown of Xingang, Liu was forced to bury his valuables, including a vast collection of prized antique porcelain, and undertake a decades-long ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Katsushika Hokusai and artworks

    by C.J. Holmes ...
    Without a doubt, Katsushika Hokusai is the most famous Japanese artist since the middle of the nineteenth century whose art is known to the Western world. Reflecting the artistic expression of an isolated civilisation, the works of Hokusai - one of the first Japanese artists to emerge in Europe - greatly influenced the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painters, such as Vincent van Gogh. ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Practical Zen

    Meditation and Beyond

    by Julian Daizan Skinner ...
    Zen master Julian Daizan Skinner guides the reader through a sequence of meditation techniques that can safely lead even a complete novice through to advanced levels. Based on his own long experience of the Rinzai Zen tradition, as taught by the great seventeenth-century masters, Hakuin and Bankei, Daizan highlights the key points for success and addresses the pitfalls. Structured around a ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Triumph of Modernism

    by Partha Mitter ...
    This richly illustrated book explores the contested history of art and nationalism in the tumultuous last decades of British rule in India. Western avant-garde art inspired a powerful weapon of resistance among India’s artists in their struggle against colonial repression, and it is this complex interplay of Western modernism and Indian nationalism that is the core of this book.The Triumph of ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Imperial Illusions

    Crossing Pictorial Boundaries in the Qing Palaces

    by Kristina Kleutghen ...
    Series series Art History Publication Initiative Books
    In the Forbidden City and other palaces around Beijing, Emperor Qianlong (r. 1736-1795) surrounded himself with monumental paintings of architecture, gardens, people, and faraway places. The best artists of the imperial painting academy, including a number of European missionary painters, used Western perspectival illusionism to transform walls and ceilings with visually striking images that were ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Spells, Images, and Mandalas

    Tracing the Evolution of Esoteric Buddhist Rituals

    by Koichi Shinohara ...
    Series series The Sheng Yen Series in Chinese Buddhist Studies
    Koichi Shinohara traces the evolution of Esoteric Buddhist rituals from the simple recitation of spells in the fifth century to complex systems involving image worship, mandala initiation, and visualization practices in the ninth century. He presents an important new reading of a seventh-century Chinese text called the Collected Dharani Sutras, which shows how earlier rituals for specific deities ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Collecting and Displaying China's “Summer Palace” in the West

    The Yuanmingyuan in Britain and France

    Edited by Louise Tythacott ...
    Series series The Histories of Material Culture and Collecting, 1700-1950
    In October 1860, at the culmination of the Second Opium War, British and French troops looted and destroyed one of the most important palace complexes in imperial China—the Yuanmingyuan. Known in the West as the "Summer Palace," this site consisted of thousands of buildings housing a vast art collection. It is estimated that over a million objects may have been taken from the palaces in the ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Rethinking Place in South Asian and Islamic Art, 1500-Present

    Edited by Deborah S. Hutton, Rebecca M. Brown ...
    Place plays a fundamental role in the structuring of the discipline of Art History. And yet, place also limits the questions art historians can ask and impairs analysis of objects and locations in the interstices of established, ossified categories. The chapters in this interdisciplinary volume investigate place in all of its dynamism and complexity: several call into question traditional ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Art of Champa

    Sacred sculpture and temples of ancient Vietnam

    by Jean-François Hubert ...
    In the 5th century, the Champa kingdom held sway over a large area of today’s Vietnam. Several magnificent structures still testify to their former presence in the Nha Trang region. Cham sculpture was worked in a variety of materials, principally sandstone, but also gold, silver and bronze. It was primarily used to illustrate themes from Indian mythology. The kingdom was gradually eroded during ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Naturally Hypernatural III: Hypernatural Landscapes in the Anthropocene

    Edited by Sabine Flach, Gary Sherman ...
    Series Book 5 - Art – Knowledge – Theory
    This third volume of Naturally Hypernatural explores contemporary concepts of landscape in the humanities and the arts in relation to the notion that our age is defined by a ‘geology of the human’ and that this reckoning constitutes a new epoch, aptly named the anthropocene.The thesis of this volume – that there is no homogeneous concept of landscape, just as there is no uniform definition of ... Read more

    $94.69 USD