TRANSMITTING THE FORMS OF DIVINITY
Early Buddhist Art from Korea and Japan

CONTENTS
 
PREFACE
William Clark, Jr. and Donald Gregg  8
 
FOREWORD AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Alexandra Munroe  10
 
LENDERS TO THE EXHIBITION  14
 
NOTES TO THE READER  14
 
CHRONOLOGY  15
 
INTRODUCTION
The Transmission and Transformation of Early Buddhist Culture in Korea and Japan
Jonathan Best  18
 
THE LINK TO THE SHANDONG STYLE IN BUDDHIST SCULPTURE
From the Stone Buddhas of Longxingsi to Buddhist Images of Three Kingdoms Korea and Asuka-Hakuhō Japan
Tanabe Saburōsuke  46
 
The Monastery Kōryūji’s “Crowned Maitreya” and the Stone Pensive Bodhisattva Excavated at Longxingsi
Ōnishi shūya  54
 
THE TRANSMISSION AND TRANSFORMATION OF BUDDHIST ART
Early Korean Buddhist Sculptures and Related Japanese Examples: Iconographic and Stylistic Comparisons
Kim Lena  68
 
Korean Gilt-Bronze Single Mandorla Buddha Triads and the Dissemination of East Asian Sculptural Style
Kwak Dong-seok  84
 
Korean Elements in Japanese Pictorial Representation in the Early Asuka Period
Ariga Yoshitaka  96
 
A New Theory: Ki as Represented in Koguryŏ Murals and Buddhist Haloes of the Three Kingdoms Period
Kang Woo-bang  106
 
Tōdaiji’s Great Buddha: Its Foundation in Buddhist Doctrine and Its Chinese and Korean Precedents
Konno Toshifumi  114
 
Technique of Early Buddhist Sculpture in Japan
Washizuka Hiromitsu  128

FOUNDATIONS OF BUDDHIST ARCHITECTURE
The Monastery Hwangyongsa and Buddhism of the Early Silla Period
Park Youngbok  140
 
The Monastery Hōryūji: Architectural Forms of Early Buddhism in Japan
Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt  154
 
The Art of Avataṁsaka Sūtra in the Unified Silla Period: The Sanctuary of Sŏkkuram and Hwaŏm-kyŏng Pyŏnsangdo (Narrative Portrayal in the Avataṁsaka Sūtra)
Kang Woo-bang  168

Early Korean and Japanese Reliquaries in Relation to Pagoda Architecture
Choi Eung-chon  178
 
CATALOGUE  190
 
Buddhist Sculpture  192
 
Sūtras and Ritual Objects  306
 
Tiles from Temples  322
 
Roof Tiles of Korea’s Three Kingdoms and Unified Silla Periods
Kim Sŏng-gu  341
 
Korean Influence and Japanese Innovation in Tiles of the Asuka-Hakuhō Period
Mori Ikuo  356
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY  360
 
GLOSSARY AND CONCORDANCE OF TEAMS  366
 
INDEX  376
 
PHOTOGRAPH CREDITS  384