Differentiation and Reformation:A New Exploration of the Origin of the Imagery in"JieboTu"
"Jiebo Tu"(or"Raising the Alms-Bowl")is an artistic creation in ancient Chinese painting that depicts stories from Buddhist karma.Many surviving"Jiebo Tu"pieces feature imagery that is identical or similar to the images of"Defeating the Demons and Attaining Enlightenment"from the Buddha's biography.Scholars generally believe that the former absorbed or borrowed the imagery from the latter.However,some questions remain,such as why the"ghost crowd"in"Jiebo Tu"borrowed the image of the"demon army"from the"Defeating the Demons and Attaining Enlightenment"scenes.The early Ming Dynasty Buddhist scripture frontispiece"Hariti Raising the Alms Bowl"combines both"Defeating the Demons"and"Jiebo"in a single picture,considered an anomaly,and raises the question of its imagery source.Through image comparison and literature research,this paper finds that during the Tang Dynasty,"Buddha Subduing Hariti"and"Defeating the Demons and Attaining Enlightenment"were once combined into a single image to depict Buddha's subjugation of both internal and external demons,known as"Defeating the Demons".By the Northern Song Dynasty,with the development and popularity of the Jiebo story in secular literature,"Buddha Subduing Hariti and Seizing the Bowl"gradually became an independent mural theme.Later"Jiebo Tu"works were recreated based on these mural drafts."Jiebo Tu"is both a product of the localization and secularization of Buddhism and a typical example of cross-media transmission of Buddhist painting imagery.Exploring the origin of the imagery in"Jiebo Tu"can restore the entire formation process of this image and promote in-depth research on related themes.
"Jiebo Tu"imagery origin"Defeating the Demons and Attaining Enlightenment"differentiation
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