Jokhang's Bathing Maitreya : The Story of an Unknown Statue and its Photographs

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F25%3A00144588" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/25:00144588 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/digilib.83221" target="_blank" >https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/digilib.83221</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/Rel2025-42084" target="_blank" >10.5817/Rel2025-42084</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Jokhang's Bathing Maitreya : The Story of an Unknown Statue and its Photographs

Original language description

The paper deals with one statue, located in the most sacred Tibetan Buddhist temple Jokhang in Lhasa, bearing the somewhat mysterious name of Bathing Maitreya. The 11th century statue is depicted in just two photographs and disappeared during the so-called Cultural Revolution in 1966. The first black and white photograph is by Ernst Krause from 1939, the second is in colour by Josef Vaniš from 1954. The paper places both photographs in their proper historical, religious and factual context. For the first time it publishes one of them, the Vaniš one, in its entirety, i.e. uncut, and correctly located and described. And for the second photograph, Krause's, the paper correctly identifies for the first time what it depicts. It is thus a visual reconstruction of a unique Tibetan statue, a replica of which is now in Lhasa in the same place as the original. The paper deals with one statue, located in the most sacred Tibetan Buddhist temple Jokhang in Lhasa, bearing the somewhat mysterious name of Bathing Maitreya. The 11th century statue is depicted in just two photographs and disappeared during the so-called Cultural Revolution in 1966. The first black and white photograph is by Ernst Krause from 1939, the second is in colour by Josef Vaniš from 1954. The paper places both photographs in their proper historical, religious and factual context. For the first time it publishes one of them, the Vaniš one, in its entirety, i.e. uncut, and correctly located and described. And for the second photograph, Krause's, the paper correctly identifies for the first time what it depicts. It is thus a visual reconstruction of a unique Tibetan statue, a replica of which is now in Lhasa in the same place as the original. The paper deals with one statue, located in the most sacred Tibetan Buddhist temple Jokhang in Lhasa, bearing the somewhat mysterious name of Bathing Maitreya. The 11th century statue is depicted in just two photographs and disappeared during the so-called Cultural Revolution in 1966. The first black and white photograph is by Ernst Krause from 1939, the second is in colour by Josef Vaniš from 1954. The paper places both photographs in their proper historical, religious and factual context. For the first time it publishes one of them, the Vaniš one, in its entirety, i.e. uncut, and correctly located and described. And for the second photograph, Krause's, the paper correctly identifies for the first time what it depicts. It is thus a visual reconstruction of a unique Tibetan statue, a replica of which is now in Lhasa in the same place as the original. The paper deals with one statue, located in the most sacred Tibetan Buddhist temple Jokhang in Lhasa, bearing the somewhat mysterious name of Bathing Maitreya. The 11th century statue is depicted in just two photographs and disappeared during the so-called Cultural Revolution in 1966. The first black and white photograph is by Ernst Krause from 1939, the second is in colour by Josef Vaniš from 1954. The paper places both photographs in their proper historical, religious and factual context. For the first time it publishes one of them, the Vaniš one, in its entirety, i.e. uncut, and correctly located and described. And for the second photograph, Krause's, the paper correctly identifies for the first time what it depicts. It is thus a visual reconstruction of a unique Tibetan statue, a replica of which is now in Lhasa in the same place as the original.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60304 - Religious studies

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA23-06406S" target="_blank" >GA23-06406S: Representations and Role of Tibetan Buddhism in Narratives about Tibet from 1950s to Present</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Religio

ISSN

1210-3640

e-ISSN

2336-4475

Volume of the periodical

33

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

26

Pages from-to

193-218

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

999