[Buddha-l] Wong, ed. _Horyuji Reconsidered_

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H-ASIA
June 19, 2008

Member publication: _Horyuji Reconsidered_ by Dorothy C. Wong
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From: Dorothy C. Wong <dcw7a at cms.mail.virginia.edu>

I am pleased to announce the publication of a new collection of
essays on the Horyuji temple complex of Japanese Buddhism.  The
collection is the product of a symposium held in 2005 at the
University of Virginia "The Dawn of East Asian International
Buddhist Art and Architecture: Horyuji (Temple of the Exalted
Law) in Its Contexts."

_Horyuji Reconsidered_
Edited by Dorothy C. Wong with Eric M. Field (design)
(Newcastle-upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publications, 2005)
ISBN: 9781847185679

Table of Contents:

Preface

Prologue: The Shadow of Shotoku Taishi
John M. Rosenfield

Part I: Architecture and Art

Chapter One: Reviving the Burning Question:The Horyuji Fires and
Its Reconstruction J. Edward Kidder, Jr.

Chapter Two: The Central Core Structural System: A
Three-Dimensional Analysis of the Five-Story Pagoda of Horyuji
Eric M. Field

Chapter Three: Seeing Horyuji through China Nancy Shatzman
Steinhardt

Chapter Four: Yakushi, Shaka, the 747 Inventory, and the Cult of
Prince Shotoku J. Edward Kidder, Jr.

Chapter Five: Reassessing the Wall Paintings of Horyuji Dorothy
C. Wong

Part II: Religion

Chapter Six: When the Dharma Comes: Contextualizing the Public
Transmission of Buddhism to Japan Mark L. Blum

Chapter Seven: Chuguji and Female Monasticism in the Age of
Shotoku Lori Meeks

Chapter Eight: Of Temples, Horses, and Tombs: Horyuji and Chuguji
in Heian and Early Kamakura Japan Michael Como

Epilogue: Horyuji as Real Space
David Summers

Further information may be found at:
http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Horyuji-Reconsidered1-84718-567-3.htm

Dorothy C. Wong
University of Virginia