书名：Devotion: Image, Recitation, and Celebration of the Vessantara Epic in Northeast Thailand / 虔诚：泰国东北部的维桑塔拉史诗图像、诵念与庆典
定价：330.0
ISBN：9783897905009
作者：Thomas Kaiser, Leedom Lefferts, Martina Wernsdorfer
版次：1
出版时间：2017-01

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题 目：Devotion: Image, Recitation, and Celebration of the Vessantara Epic in Northeast Thailand / 虔诚：泰国东北部的维桑塔拉史诗图像、诵念与庆典

作 者：Thomas Kaiser, Leedom Lefferts, Martina Wernsdorfer

出 版：Arnoldsche，2017

装 帧：精装，192页

语 种：英文

尺 寸：24.5*31.6 cm

 

 

《维桑塔拉本生经》记载了佛陀二千五百年前化身为历史人物释迦牟尼前的最后一世修行。

在其作为维桑塔拉王子的前世中，他展现了觉者至高无上的美德——布施。维桑塔拉舍尽所爱，在故事高潮处甚至将妻儿也慷慨施予。泰国东北部每年举行的"布施维桑塔拉节"正是为了颂扬这一圣迹。节庆中，"维桑塔拉圣布"构成视觉叙事的主体——这些手绘长卷可达百米，宛如流动的经卷。

《虔敬之境》首次完整呈现六幅维桑塔拉长卷，并透过当代多媒体艺术，重新诠释这部古老佛经的庆典现场。

 

The Vessantara Jataka is the tale of Buddha's last life, before he was reborn as the historical Buddha 2,500 years ago.

In this earlier existence as Prince Vessantara he demonstrated evidence of the highest virtue that constitutes an enlightened man: generosity. Vessantara gave away everything dear to him - in the climactic scene of the story, even his wife and children. In North-East Thailand the Vessantara tale is celebrated annually as Bun Phra Wet. Pha Phra Wet - 'Vessantara cloths' - form the visual framework for this festival; they are hand-painted scrolls, which can reach lengths of up to one hundred metres.

Devotion presents, for the very first time, a selection of six full-length Vessantara scrolls and explores a contemporary multimedia celebration of an ancient Buddhist text.