A New Career in a New Town: The Graphic History of S.N. Goenka's vipassanā Lineage
This article analyses a gallery of paintings commissioned by S.N. Goenka and exhibited at the Global Vipassana Pagoda in Mumbai. The Pagoda’s gallery is a full retelling of the Buddha’s life, which blends 'mainstream' Theravādan iconography with specific vipassanic themes. I first identify...
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Peeters Publishers
2021
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Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies
Jahr: 2021, Band: 44, Seiten: 77-118 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | This article analyses a gallery of paintings commissioned by S.N. Goenka and exhibited at the Global Vipassana Pagoda in Mumbai. The Pagoda’s gallery is a full retelling of the Buddha’s life, which blends 'mainstream' Theravādan iconography with specific vipassanic themes. I first identify the main visual features of the gallery, and then explore the story in the paintings, which spans twenty-five centuries of Buddhadhamma. With the aid of audio and written commentaries, I address the gallery’s visual, oral and written storytelling, discovering parallels in other modern Buddhist traditions, but also efforts to include Western India in the resulting narrative. |
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| ISSN: | 2507-0347 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: International Association of Buddhist Studies, Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2143/JIABS.44.0.3290291 |