"What is Busshi (Japanese Buddhist sculptor)?" - With Mark Schumacher
Carving the Divine TV Podcast
English - July 07, 2021 15:00 - 17 minutes - 11.9 MBBuddhism Religion & Spirituality buddhism buddha japan japanese buddhism busshi dalai lama religion spirituality history japanese history Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Hosted by filmmaker Yujiro Seki, Carving the Divine TV is a series of Q&A sessions with Buddhist scholars and practitioners. These Q&A sessions explore the basic concepts of Buddhism and the history of Buddhism so that when viewers finally watch Carving the Divine they will get the maximum value of the documentary.
In this special episode, we will have a art historian/scholar) Mark Schumacher to discuss about Busshi (Japanese Buddhist sculptor). * To fully enjoy this content, please go to our YouTube video: https://youtu.be/Kn3ZD-R5_vs
Mark Schumacher is an independent researcher who moved to Kamakura (Japan) in 1993 and still lives there today. His website, The A-to-Z Photo Dictionary of Japanese Religious Statuary, has been online since 1995. It is widely referenced by universities, museums, art historians, Buddhist practitioners, and lay people from around the world. The site's focus is medieval Japanese religious art, primarily Buddhist, but it also catalogs art from Shintō, Shugendō, Taoist, and other traditions. As of August 2018, it contained 400+ deities and thousands of annotated photos of statuary from Kamakura, Nara, Kyoto, and elsewhere in Japan. The site is searchable. LINK TO A-TO-Z PHOTO DICTIONARY = http://www.onmarkproductions.com/html/buddhism.shtml