Butsuzo Episode 3: Transmission of Buddhism to Japan and Common Characteristics of Deity Classes. With Mark Schumacher Artwork

Carving the Divine TV Podcast

Come and join our weekly journey on Buddhism and Eastern Religion hosted by filmmaker Yujiro Seki. Carving the Divine TV Podcast is a series of Q&A sessions with Buddhist scholars and practitioners. These Q&A sessions explore the basic concepts and history of Buddhism. The show may not turn you into a self-actualized spiritual guru but it will open the door into this beautiful, profound spiritual tradition. We will start our journey from India and make our way to Japan, covering a wide range of topics in an easy-to-digest style! Each show is between 10 - 30 minutes long. On top of that, we will give you special episodes on Japanese Buddhist sculptures (known as Butsuzo) and Buddhist practioners' episodes. Yes! This series is made to be a supplemental material for the up-and-coming documentary film "Carving the Divine - Buddhist Sculptors of Japan" but you can take your new knowledge with you anywhere in the world to enhance the quality of your life!

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Carving the Divine TV Podcast

Butsuzo Episode 3: Transmission of Buddhism to Japan and Common Characteristics of Deity Classes. With Mark Schumacher

August 18, 2021 • Yujiro Seki • Season 1 • Episode 73

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, the history of Buddhism and of course Buddhist sculptures/sculptors (bustuzo/busshi) so that when viewers finally watch the documentary Carving the Divine - Buddhist sculptors of Japan, they will get the maximum value of the documentary.

In this special episode, we will have an art historian/scholar) Mark Schumacher to discuss History/transmission of Buddhism to Japan and Common Characteristics of Deity Classes, including Nyorai (Buddhas) Bosatsu (Bodhisattvas) Nyorai (Wisdom Kings) and Ten (Celestial Beings). * To fully enjoy this content, please go to our YouTube video: https://youtu.be/M2LPT5yG8fY

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

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