Wen-Shing Chou
Biographic Data
| ID | 1187054 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wen-Shing Chou |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wen-Shing |
| FAMILY NAME | Chou |
| SIGNATURE | CHOU W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute for Advanced Study |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Beneficial to Behold
Mount Wutai
Building a Sacred Mountain
Reimagining the Buddhist Universe
During his exiles from Lhasa in the 1910s, the Thirteenth Dalai Lama visited the holy places of Wutai Shan in China and Bodh Gaya in India. After his return, he commissioned paintings of these two places in cosmological mural programs of his palaces. While conforming to earlier iconographic traditions, these paintings employed empirical modes of representation unprecedented in Tibetan Buddhist paintings, revealing a close connection to the Dalai …
Ineffable Paths
During the height of the Qing Empire (1644–1912), Manchu emperors embraced Tibetan Buddhism at Wutaishan with unprecedented vision and fervor. Wutaishan's consequent transformation is both revealed in and continually rearticulated by a widely disseminated map of the mountain, engraved on-site by a Mongolian lama in 1846. The map is so situated at the intersection of several different image-making traditions, each revealing its own criteria for tr…
Mt. Wutai
Reimagining the Buddhist Universe
During his exiles from Lhasa in the 1910s, the Thirteenth Dalai Lama visited the holy places of Wutai Shan in China and Bodh Gaya in India. After his return, he commissioned paintings of these two places in cosmological mural programs of his palaces. While conforming to earlier iconographic traditions, these paintings employed empirical modes of representation unprecedented in Tibetan Buddhist paintings, revealing a close connection to the Dalai …
Mt. Wutai
Ineffable Paths
During the height of the Qing Empire (1644–1912), Manchu emperors embraced Tibetan Buddhism at Wutaishan with unprecedented vision and fervor. Wutaishan's consequent transformation is both revealed in and continually rearticulated by a widely disseminated map of the mountain, engraved on-site by a Mongolian lama in 1846. The map is so situated at the intersection of several different image-making traditions, each revealing its own criteria for tr…
Reimagining the Buddhist Universe
During his exiles from Lhasa in the 1910s, the Thirteenth Dalai Lama visited the holy places of Wutai Shan in China and Bodh Gaya in India. After his return, he commissioned paintings of these two places in cosmological mural programs of his palaces. While conforming to earlier iconographic traditions, these paintings employed empirical modes of representation unprecedented in Tibetan Buddhist paintings, revealing a close connection to the Dalai …
Building a Sacred Mountain
Mount Wutai
Beneficial to Behold
Buddhism (5 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (5 works) · History (5 works) · Ancient history (4 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Art history (2 works)