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Buddhist art - its nature, creation, function, conservation and contemporary manifestations - was the subject of the Buddhist Art Forum, a major conference held at The Courtauld Institute of Art in 2012 and sponsored by The Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation. For the first time a representative group of those with a stake in Buddhist art - including art historians, conservators, curators and officials, a monk from Nepal and a contemporary artist - was gathered to address these issues. The twenty-eight papers in this resulting ground-breaking volume consider Buddhist art from the earliest Indian�stupas�to contemporary Himalayan�thangkas, as well as its ritual use and audience, its tourist consumption in expanding economies, its often ill-conceived conservation, and its influence on modern and contemporary Western art. A stimulating range of viewpoints is expressed in this lavishly illustrated volume, making a genuine contribution to the awareness and understanding of these issues and developments that goes beyond regional and specialist boundaries.
Art of Merit�remains one of the most comprehensive volumes on not only Buddhist art but also the philosophy of Buddhist art.
1 Presenting the Buddha: images, conventions, and significance in early Indian Buddhism�Juhyung Rhi
2 Buddha's stupa and image: in search of the ultimate icon�Tadeusz Skorupski
3 Rhetoric of Reward, ideologies of inducement: why produce Buddhist 'art'?�Peter Skilling
4 Art in the dark: the ritual context of Buddhist caves in western China�Robert Sharf
5 Painted and architectural ornamentation of the temples of Pagan: more than mere iconography and decoration�Claudine Bautze-Picron
6 The problem of authenticity: a historical geography of Buddhist art in eighteenth-century China�Patricia Berger
7 The oracle and temple of Lamochok: aspects of history and iconography�Matthew Kapstein
8 The wailing arhats: Buddhism, photography and resistance in modern China�Francesca Tarocco
9 Conserving the Buddhist wall paintings of Bamiyan in Afghanistan: practical issues and dilemmas�Yoko Taniguchi
10 Buddhist wall paintings in context: the foundation for future scholarship�Susan Whitfield
11 Dunhuang Grotto Buddhist art and its preventative conservation�Wang Xudong
12 Applying the�China Principles: The Getty Conservation Institute�s work at Dunhuang and Chengde in China�Lori Wong, Martha Demas and Neville Agnew
13 Conservation and research in Buddhist art from an art-historical perspective�Christian Luczanits
14 Sumda Chun and other early Buddhist wall painting in Ladakh: practical and ethical conservation issues from to failing structures to obscuring surface layers�Charlotte Martin de Fonjaudran, Sreekumar Menon and Maninder Singh Gill
15 Relationship of conservation to the functions of monuments, with reference to Buddhism in Bhutan�Dorjee Tshering
16 Buddhist wall paintings of Bhutan: material traditions and conservation realities�Lisa Shekede and Stephen Rickerby
17 A new image of the Mahasiddha Virupa: a major addition to the corpus of early fifteenth-century bronzes�John Clarke
18 A new image of the Mahasiddha Virupa: technical investigations and conservation�Diana Heath
19 The Buddha and his brothers: expressions of power, place and community by the network of Mahamuni images of Arakan, Bangladesh and Burma�Pyi Phyo Kyaw and Kate Crosby
20 Buddhist strategies of keeping its sacred images and shrines alive: the example of the Svayambhu caitya of Kathmandu�Alexander von Rospatt
21 Materiality of devotion: Tibetan Buddhist shrines of the western Himalayas�Melissa R. Kerin
22 The pilgrimage to Bangajang: a devotional circuit in the eastern Himalayas�Richard Blurton
23 Sacred art: on the path to wisdom and compassion�Matthieu Ricard
24 Re-inscribing Mount Myohyang: from the Pohyon Temple to the International Friendship Exhibition�Marsha Haufler
25 Why collect Tibetan art?�Alice Kandell
26 Buddhist art in an Ando building�Francesca Consagra
27 Revisiting�The Third Mind: Buddhist imaginary in American art�Alexandra Munroe
28 �Sculpture of mindfulness��Antony Gormley