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E-book Northeastern Asia and the Northern Rockies : Treasures from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Daryl S. Paulson Collection

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his exhibition, Northeastern Asia and the Northern Rockies, has been conceived as an introduction in four parts that will help visitors to the museum and scholars of the university understand key elements of both traditional and current Northeastern Asian native and migrant cultures. The first three parts of the exhibition introduce fundamen-tal concepts inherent in Daoism, Confucian-ism, and Buddhism that provided the under-pinnings of traditional Chinese culture and much of later Korean and Japanese culture. The final fourth part analyzes the various ways urban and rural communities of North-eastern Asia adapted the philosophies to sea-sonal ritual and daily life, which provided a basis for trans-Pacific migrants and settlers to transplant them to the Northern Rockies.The first section examines fundamental ideas of Daoist cosmology as seen through the prism of unusually shaped stones found in nature and prized in interiors and gardens. Daoism is a spiritual tradition indigenous to China which has also had a profound influ-ence on the cultures of Korea, Japan, Ok-inawa, Vietnam, and, to a lesser extent, the Himalayas. It is still a major system of belief in China, with clear influences in such realms as cosmology, medicine, and art. The second section introduces Confucianism, an ancient school of thought that became the dominant underpinning of the imperial Chinese state from the second century BCE onward, and the foundation of later royal and imperial culture and government in Korea and Japan. Confucianism is distinguished from Daoism in its focus on the more secular creation and maintenance of a stable society, through the promulgation of ideal modes and practices of human behavior within society — including many social rituals focused on the individual, the family, and the state. The third section explores the role of Buddhism, an Indian system of belief which first emerged in the fifth century BCE, in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese spiritual, intellectual, and artistic culture. Devotional sculptures in the exhibi-tion enable one to explore those fundamental elements of Buddhism which remained the same regardless of where the religion spread, but also how Buddhism changed and adapted to local, preexisting systems of belief in East Asia — specifically Daoism in China and Shint? in Japan. Key schools of Chinese Bud-dhism include the Pure Land sect, focused on veneration of Amitabha, Buddha of the Western Paradise, and Chan (Japanese Zen) Buddhism. Elements of all three systems of belief — Daoism, Confucianism, and Bud-dhism — continue to play key roles in Chi-nese, Korean, and Japanese culture, both within these countries and among diasporic East Asian communities around the globe.

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902 LIT n

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New York : Punctum books., 2022

Deskripsi Fisik

325 hlm

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English

ISBN/ISSN

9781685711177

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902

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text

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computer

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online resource

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Miscellany of History

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