Art Historian Does 'Detective' Work on Japanese Buddhist Imagery
LAWRENCE, Kan., Feb. 21 -- The University of Kansas issued the following news:
More is better. That's the core idea that gave rise to the Six Kannon cult in Japanese Buddhism. Then the Seven Kannon cult, and then the Thirty-Three Kannon cult that persists to this day.
A new book about the phenomenon, "Accounts and Images of Six Kannon in Japan" (2016, University of Hawaii Press), by Sherry Fowler, professor of Japanese art history in the History of Art De . . .
More is better. That's the core idea that gave rise to the Six Kannon cult in Japanese Buddhism. Then the Seven Kannon cult, and then the Thirty-Three Kannon cult that persists to this day.
A new book about the phenomenon, "Accounts and Images of Six Kannon in Japan" (2016, University of Hawaii Press), by Sherry Fowler, professor of Japanese art history in the History of Art De . . .