Manichaean Art and Calligraphy

Manichaean Art and Calligraphy PDF Author: H. J. Klimkeit
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004064782
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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Manichaean Art and Calligraphy

Manichaean Art and Calligraphy PDF Author: H. J. Klimkeit
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004064782
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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Manichaean Art and Calligraphy

Manichaean Art and Calligraphy PDF Author: Hans-Joachim Klimkeit
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004667083
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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Mediaeval Manichaean Book Art

Mediaeval Manichaean Book Art PDF Author: Zsuzsanna Gulácsi
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900413994X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 267

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Mediaeval Manichaean Book Art focuses on a corpus of 89 fragments of exquisitely illuminated manuscripts that were produced under the patronage of the Turkic-speaking Uygurs in the Turfan region of East Central Asia between the 8th and 11th centuries C.E., and used in service of the local Manichaean church. By applying a codicological approach to the analysis of these sources, this study casts light onto a lost episode of Central Asian art history and religious book culture. Mediaeval Manichaean Book Art represents a pioneer study in its subject, research methodology, and illustrations. It extracts codicological and art historical data from torn remains of lavishly decorated Middle-Persian, Sogdian, and Uygur language manuscripts in codex, scroll, and 'palm-leaf' formats. Through detailed analyses and carefully argued interpretations aided by precise computer drawings, the author introduces an important group of primary sources for future comparative research in Central Asian art, mediaeval book illumination, and Manichaean studies.

Iconography of Religions

Iconography of Religions PDF Author: Hans-Joachim Klimkeit
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789004064782
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 50

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Studies in Manichaean Literature and Art

Studies in Manichaean Literature and Art PDF Author: Manfred Heuser
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004440437
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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This volume consists of two sections, written by the two authors. The first section contains a study by Manfred Heuser on The Manichaean Myth According to Coptic Sources. This is the first systematic presentation of the basic myth as reflected in Coptic material. The second part is a collection of essays on Manichaeism by Hans-Joachim Klimkeit. The essays are concerned, inter alia, with Manichaean art and symbolism, including newly found examples of Manichaean art from Central Asia.

Mani's Pictures

Mani's Pictures PDF Author: Zsuzsanna Gulácsi
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004308946
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 555

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The founder of Manichaeism, Mani (216-274/277 CE), not only wrote down his teachings to prevent their adulteration, but also created a set of paintings—the Book of Pictures—to be used in the context of oral instruction. That pictorial handscroll and its later editions became canonical art for Mani's followers for a millennium afterwards. This richly illustrated study systematically explores the artistic culture of religious instruction of the Manichaeans based on textual and artistic evidence. It discusses the doctrinal themes (soteriology, prophetology, theology, and cosmology) depicted in Mani’s canonical pictures. Moreover, it identifies 10th-century fragments of canonical picture books, as well as select didactic images adapted to other, non-canonical art objects (murals, hanging scrolls, mortuary banners, and illuminated liturgical manuscripts) in Uygur Central Asia and Tang-Ming China.

In Search of Truth. Augustine, Manichaeism and Other Gnosticism

In Search of Truth. Augustine, Manichaeism and Other Gnosticism PDF Author: J. van (Johannes) Oort
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004189971
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 769

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This volume in honour of Prof. Dr. Johannes van Oort offers a rich variety of in-depth studies on Augustine, Manichaeism, and other Gnostic currents, thus reflecting the rich variety of the honorand’s research interests.

Buddhism in Iran

Buddhism in Iran PDF Author: M. Vaziri
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137022949
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 353

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Exploring the interactions of the Buddhist world with the dominant cultures of Iran in pre- and post-Islamic times, Vaziri demonstrates that the traces and cross-influences of Buddhism have brought the material and spiritual culture of Iran to its present state even after the term was eradicated from the literary and popular language of the region.

Uygur Patronage in Dunhuang

Uygur Patronage in Dunhuang PDF Author: Lilla Russell-Smith
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047415698
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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This volume is about the long-neglected, but decisive influence of Uygur patrons on Dunhuang art in the tenth and eleventh centuries. Through an insightful introduction to the hitherto little-known early history and art of the Uygurs, the author explains the social and political forces that shaped the taste of Uygur patrons. The cultural and political effects of Sino-Uygur political marriages are examined in the larger context of the role of high-ranking women in medieval art patronage. Careful study of the iconography, technique and style sheds new light on important paintings in the collection of the British Museum in London, and the Musée national des Arts asiatiques-Guimet, in Paris, and through comparative analysis the importance of regional art centres in medieval China and Central Asia is explored. Richly illustrated with line drawings, as well as colour and black-and-white plates.

The Light and the Darkness

The Light and the Darkness PDF Author: Paul Mirecki
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004439900
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 231

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This is the second volume of scholarly studies in Manichaeism which were originally presented before the Manichaean Studies Group of the Society of Biblical Literature from 1997 through 1999. Like its predecessor, Emerging from Darkness: Studies in the Recovery of Manichaean Sources (Brill, 1997), this volume presents the latest international scholarship from leading researchers in the growing field of Manichaean studies. Here the researchers move from the continuing foundational work of recovering Manichaean sources to the necessary task of understanding the relationship of Manichaeans to the larger world in which they lived. That relationship took several distinct forms, and the contributions in this book analyze those forms, examining the relationship of Manichaeism with diverse cultural, social and religious traditions.