Jessie Pons
Biographic Data
| ID | 4592831 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jessie Pons |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jessie |
| FAMILY NAME | Pons |
| SIGNATURE | PONS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bochum University of Applied Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1211-2213 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1962 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Buddha and the Sun Disk: Some Reflections on the Dialectics of Light in a Relief from Matkanai, Pakistan
This paper examines a fragmentary relief from Matkanai (Malakand, Pakistan), housed in the Dir Museum, Chakdara. The relief depicts a solar disk set within a cave, partially obscuring a seated Buddha in padmāsana, whose right knee emerges from behind the disk. While Gandharan art is renowned for its use of “luminous” iconographies, such as nimbuses, full-body halos, and flaming shoulders, this example introduces a new visual grammar. The aim of t…
The Seven Steps: Building the DiGA Thesaurus
This article presents the creation of the ‘Digitization of Gandharan Artefact Thesaurus’, a digital resource for the description of Gandharan art and – more generally – of Buddhist art. It was developed by the project ‘Digitisation of Gandharan Artefacts: A project for the preservation and the study of the Buddhist art of Pakistan’ (DiGA). This work has been realized by walking Seven Steps, a serendipitous coincidence pairing our work to a famous…
Religion, Media, and Materiality: Introduction
This introduction to the Special Issue “Religion, Media, Materiality” succinctly outlines the central themes of media and authority, serving as tertia comparationis within the volume, and evokes their significance in addressing media changes from a transdisciplinary perspective. It surveys three theoretical frameworks and general perspectives on the interplay between religion, media, and authority, as put forth by Stewart Hoover, Birgit Meyer, an…
The Figure with a Bow in Gandhāran Great Departure Scenes. Some New Readings
The figure holding a bow on Gandhāran illustrations of the Bodhisattva’s departure from Kapilavastu has been the subject of controversy. First identified as Māra and Indra, the interpretation proposed by K. Tanabe that the protagonist is Vaiśravaṇa-Kubera rallied broader consensus. The present reassessment takes into account the multi-cultural and multi-religious context of production of the images, namely the Kushan era, to offer additional read…
Panorama de la linguistica moderna
The Buddha and the Sun Disk: Some Reflections on the Dialectics of Light in a Relief from Matkanai, Pakistan
This paper examines a fragmentary relief from Matkanai (Malakand, Pakistan), housed in the Dir Museum, Chakdara. The relief depicts a solar disk set within a cave, partially obscuring a seated Buddha in padmāsana, whose right knee emerges from behind the disk. While Gandharan art is renowned for its use of “luminous” iconographies, such as nimbuses, full-body halos, and flaming shoulders, this example introduces a new visual grammar. The aim of t…
The Figure with a Bow in Gandhāran Great Departure Scenes. Some New Readings
The figure holding a bow on Gandhāran illustrations of the Bodhisattva’s departure from Kapilavastu has been the subject of controversy. First identified as Māra and Indra, the interpretation proposed by K. Tanabe that the protagonist is Vaiśravaṇa-Kubera rallied broader consensus. The present reassessment takes into account the multi-cultural and multi-religious context of production of the images, namely the Kushan era, to offer additional read…
Panorama de la linguistica moderna
The Figure with a Bow in Gandhāran Great Departure Scenes. Some New Readings
The figure holding a bow on Gandhāran illustrations of the Bodhisattva’s departure from Kapilavastu has been the subject of controversy. First identified as Māra and Indra, the interpretation proposed by K. Tanabe that the protagonist is Vaiśravaṇa-Kubera rallied broader consensus. The present reassessment takes into account the multi-cultural and multi-religious context of production of the images, namely the Kushan era, to offer additional read…
The Seven Steps: Building the DiGA Thesaurus
This article presents the creation of the ‘Digitization of Gandharan Artefact Thesaurus’, a digital resource for the description of Gandharan art and – more generally – of Buddhist art. It was developed by the project ‘Digitisation of Gandharan Artefacts: A project for the preservation and the study of the Buddhist art of Pakistan’ (DiGA). This work has been realized by walking Seven Steps, a serendipitous coincidence pairing our work to a famous…
Religion, Media, and Materiality: Introduction
This introduction to the Special Issue “Religion, Media, Materiality” succinctly outlines the central themes of media and authority, serving as tertia comparationis within the volume, and evokes their significance in addressing media changes from a transdisciplinary perspective. It surveys three theoretical frameworks and general perspectives on the interplay between religion, media, and authority, as put forth by Stewart Hoover, Birgit Meyer, an…
The Buddha and the Sun Disk: Some Reflections on the Dialectics of Light in a Relief from Matkanai, Pakistan
This paper examines a fragmentary relief from Matkanai (Malakand, Pakistan), housed in the Dir Museum, Chakdara. The relief depicts a solar disk set within a cave, partially obscuring a seated Buddha in padmāsana, whose right knee emerges from behind the disk. While Gandharan art is renowned for its use of “luminous” iconographies, such as nimbuses, full-body halos, and flaming shoulders, this example introduces a new visual grammar. The aim of t…
Art (4 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Eurasian Exchange Networks (2 works) · Humanities (2 works) · Indian and Buddhist Studies (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Visual arts (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works)