Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter One: The Art of Enlightenment
Chapter Two: Mikkyo Space, Zen Time
Chapter Three: Kukai on the Art of the Ultimate
Chapter Four: Dogen on the Art of Engaging
Chapter Five: Concluding Remarks
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Pamela D. Winfield is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Coordinator of Asian Studies at Elon University, NC. Her teaching and scholarship focus on the intersection of religious studies and art history, specifically esoteric and Zen Buddhist art and doctrine in Japan.

Reviews

"Ambitious and scholarly... Winfield guides the reader with apparent ease... Icons and Iconoclasm feels like the start of a much broader discussion, not just of art in a conventional sense but also of how we might create, interpret, and inhabit ritual space." --Buddhadharma: The Practioner's Quarterly
"Delightfully instantiates the converging trajectories of art history and Buddhist studies. At this intersection, each is more deeply informed by the other, and both are enriched. Winfield's study not only demonstrates the benefits of this conjunction of fields, but shows that no longer can Buddhist studies ignore art history, nor can art history remain uninformed by Buddhist thought."--Richard K. Payne, Dean and Yehan Numata Professor of Japanese Buddhist
Studies, Institute of Buddhist Studies
"Pamela Winfield has written a very interesting and exciting book examining two major Japanese Buddhist thinkers. By focusing on the visual elements in their works in addition to the prominent texts of these giants, Winfield establishes a creative and constructive contrast between Kukai's 'unitive model' stressing non-dual union between the practitioner and ultimate reality and Dogen's 'purgative process' that highlights the individual's own experience of
casting aside all distractions."--Steven Heine, editor of Dogen: Textual and Historical Studies