Jeweled Pagoda Mandala Digital Project

Overview

From Paula Curtis Collection[1]: This project animates the sequential text of the Lotus Sutra as it constructs the pagoda form in the thirteenth-century jeweled pagoda mandalas of Ryuhonji in order to reveal the performativity of word/image and relic/reliquary in the textualised paintings.

  • Institution/Author: University of Edinburgh
  • Period: Premodern
  • Geographic Focus: Japan
  • Access: Open Access

  1. Digital Humanities Resources on East Asia by Dr. Paula R. Curtis ↩︎