The Japanese hasso Nirvana tradition of paintings : an iconological study

The purposes of this thesis are to draw attention to and document the radical change that occurred in the Japanese iconographic representation of the Buddha's Parinirvana during the first half of the 13th century; and to relate this iconographic shift to parallel changes in the iconologic accou...

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Main Author: Hunter, Harriet Jean
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/26542