The Female Immortals and Their Buddhism Origins in Chinese Paintings

Nankai University (Philosophy and Social Sciences) 3:72-79 (2008)
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Life-like painting, Magic is real, men, women expressed a strong pursuit; people often fell in love with fairy drawing as a medium for the "props"; the development of the novel into a real portrait of Illusion; picture also often form the Celestial interaction with the mortal characters laity way, the performance of the specific text in a mystical atmosphere of illusion and a source of and evidence. Artist athletics, early medieval Chinese translation is interesting to the story of a Buddhist motif; Buddhist scriptures written on a beautiful painting too lifelike, caused by men who Pursues Acacia, also inspired by the paintings of Chinese literature into a true narrative. Buddhist stories into Central Asia Turkey has also been influenced by the art of painting, its true motif for painting constitutes an important intermediary. Buddhists in China about the activities recorded in the Central Plains, it is not difficult to find traces of paint come true. Chinese paintings were an intermediary for a human being falling in love an immortal, a way for a female immortal to contact with a worldly male, and an original of fairyland and magic in some fictions' texts. It has been an interesting story topic in Buddhism classics during the middle-ancient period that the painters made competitions. Moreover, it enlightened the narrative structure that the figure in paintings became a real person in the world because the lifelike beauty in Buddhism paintings attracted the female 'seeking. There are some traces of the figure in painting becoming a real person in some records of Buddhists in the Central Areas

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