The Buddha Scroll Cleary, Thomas

What appears at first to be a small, attractively bound book folds out accordionfashion to become a oneofakind art reproduction: a striking, 36footlong Qing dynasty scroll A replica of a work originally created in eighteenthcentury China, the scroll includes more than 600 portraits large and smallbuddhas, bodhisattvas, arhats, devas, and historical figures; as well as over 2,000 images of other kindsanimals, flowers, Buddhist symbols, buildings, and landscapes The scroll demonstrates, too, the rich plurality of Buddhist sects that existed in China at that time, including images and symbols from the Zen, Huayen, Tiantai, Pure Land, and Tantric schools The scroll is introduced by Thomas Cleary, the renowned translator and authority on Buddhist texts ISBN10: 1570625131 ISBN13: 9781570625138Material Type: hardcover