THE EVOLUTION OF BUDDHIST ART IN JAPAN

Although Buddhism has very solid beginnings, and traditional artistic style apart from Japan, the introduction of Buddhism to Japan played a key role in the development of Japanese art; as the religion grew and branched into new forms, Zen in particular, Buddhist art took on many new faces and mediums. Japan is now a source of its own for new forms of Buddhist art, and this site will focus through images on the changes impacted on the Buddhist art world.

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Internet sources used in this Website are linked in their appropriate section.

Books used in this project or WORKS CONSULTED:

Kraft, Kenneth. Eloquent Zen: Daito and Early Japanese Zen. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. 1992.

Saunders, E. Dale, Buddhism In Japan. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 1964.

Suzuki, Daisetz T., Zen and Japanese Culture. New York: Bollingen Series LXIV/Ptinceton University Press. 1989.