Early Buddhist Narrative Art

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Early Buddhist Narrative Art is written by Patricia E. Karetzky and published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0761816712 (ISBN 10) and 9780761816713 (ISBN 13).

Early Buddhist Narrative Art is a pictorial journey through the transmission of the narrative cycle based on the life of the historical Buddha. Karetzky, while demonstrating the various evolutions that the image of the Buddha underwent, maintains that there is an underlying homogeneity of the tradition in the cultures of India, Central Asia, China and Japan. The author, while focusing on the visual representation of the Buddhist narrative, goes into some detail regarding the importance of scriptures in each society, and how the written tradition informed the pictorial. Over seventy photos fill this book, which will be of interest to scholars of art history, Eastern religion and Buddhism in particular.