Japanese Buddhist architecture
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 128 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5093-9809-4
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Japanese Buddhist architecture is the architecture of Buddhist temples in Japan, consisting of locally developed variants of architectural styles born in China. After Buddhism arrived the continent via Three Kingdoms of Korea in the 6th century, an effort was initially made to reproduce original buildings as faithfully as possible, but gradually local versions of continental styles were developed both to meet Japanese tastes and to solve problems posed by local weather, which is more rainy and humid than in China. The first Buddhist sects were Nara's six Nanto Rokushu (????, Nara six sects?), followed during the Heian period by Kyoto's Shingon and Tendai. Later, during the Kamakura period, in Kamakura were born the Jodo and the native Japanese sect Nichiren-shu. At roughly the same time Zen Buddhism arrived from China, strongly influencing all other sects in many ways, including architecture. The social composition of Buddhism's followers...