Introduction / Dorothy C. Wong -- I. Transmission and local interpretations -- Localizing the Buddha realm: pictorial programs on fifth-century Chinese miniature pagodas / Jinchao Zhao -- Embodying compassion and contemplation across the Yellow Sea: Avalokiteśvara and pensive bodhisattva images in sixth-century Hebei and Baekje / Li-kuei Chien -- Magnifying statuettes: reconsidering the artistic production of the earliest Buddhist statues in Japan / Hong Wu -- II. Buddhism and the state -- Divergence in art inspired by the Golden ligh sūtra in China and Japan in the seventh and eighth centuries / Dorothy C. Wong -- The marble sculpture Maṇḍala of scripture for humane kings from Anguo Monastery in Xi'an: the initiation of vernacular esoteric Buddhism in East Asia / Imann Lai -- From state protector to local warrior: the transformation of Vaiśravaṇa in Sichuan from the 8th to the 10th century / Clara Ma -- III. Iconography and traditions -- A Chinese development in the hairstyle of Acalanātha images / Sakiko Takahashi -- The transmission of a miraculous thousand-armed Avalokiteśvara image from southern Song China to Japan: images in Kōsan-ji, the Yūgensai Collection, and Shiofune Kannon-ji / Suijun Ra -- The iconography of the Kiyomizu Temple-style thousand-armed Avalokiteśvara / Tamami Hamada.
Local Note
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