Searching for Stones in the Unstable Landscape of Kannon
Searching for Stones in the Unstable Landscape of Kannon
In a remote setting at the base of Mount Wakakusa in Nara, not far from Tōdaiji Great Buddha Hall and Kasuga Shrine, is an unusual stone Buddha head, known as “Hora no buttōseki” (Stone Buddha head in the grotto). The head is perched atop a pillar that has reliefs of the Six Kannon and an inscription dating to 1520. By way of a conclusion, this monument is examined in terms of the themes treated in the book: landscape and sacred geography, text and image relationships, ritual practice, ritual lives of objects, and numbers of Kannon.
Keywords: Six Kannon, Amida, Hora, sekibutsu, Kakuhen, Hora no buttōseki, Kasuga, Kōfukuji, Nara, stone Buddha
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