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SUMMARY:Lecture:Philip Bloom
DESCRIPTION:Part of the Numata Program\n\nRelated Reading Group\nGhosts in 
 the Mists: The Visual and the Visualized in Chinese Buddhist Art\, ca. 117
 8\nat McMaster (University Hall 122) on Thursday\, November 2\, 4-6pm.\n\n
 This talk begins with two simple questions: Who is the humble figure that 
 kneels in the middle of the Cave of Perfect Enlightenment (Baodingshan\, D
 azu County\, Chongqing)\, a sculpture-filled grotto constructed during the
  late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries? More significantly\, why is 
 spectatorial attention focused on this enigmatic kneeler rather than the e
 minent buddhas he worships? Examining the visual program of this mesmerizi
 ng grotto and the kneeling figure’s place therein\, I argue that the cav
 e creates an idealized representation of a space of Buddhist ritual practi
 ce. In particular\, I contend that the kneeler\, a figure that finds no ex
 act counterpart in scriptural sources\, both enacts perpetual reverence on
  behalf of absent worshippers and solicits spectatorial identification\, e
 nabling viewers to imagine themselves into the representational world of s
 criptural narrative and liturgical practice constructed in the cave. Howev
 er\, this sculpture-filled space paradoxically insists on the fundamental 
 irrelevance of all images and matter. In the end\, I argue that the mind i
 tself comes to serve as an ultimate medium.\n\n\n\nPHILLIP E. BLOOM is the
  June and Simon K.C. Li Curator of the Chinese Garden and Director of the 
 Center for East Asian Garden Studies at The Huntington Library\, Art Colle
 ctions\, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino\, CA. A specialist in the art
  of Song-dynasty China\, he recently completed a book manuscript entitled 
 Nebulous Intersections: Ritual and Representation in Chinese Buddhist Art\
 , ca. 1178. He is currently beginning a new project on the landscapes and 
 gardens of Song Buddhist monasteries.\n\n
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