{"product_id":"9780295805351","title":"Building a Sacred Mountain: The Buddhist Architecture of China's Mount Wutai","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy the tenth century CE, Mount Wutai had become a major pilgrimage site within the emerging culture of a distinctively Chinese Buddhism. Famous as the abode of the bodhisattva Ma ju r  (known for his habit of riding around the mountain on a lion), the site in northeastern China s Shanxi Province was transformed from a wild area, long believed by Daoists to be sacred, into an elaborate complex of Buddhist monasteries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Building a Sacred Mountain, Wei-Cheng Lin traces the confluence of factors that produced this transformation and argues that monastic architecture, more than texts, icons, relics, or pilgrimages, was the key to Mount Wutai s emergence as a sacred site. Departing from traditional architectural scholarship, Lin s interdisciplinary approach goes beyond the analysis of forms and structures to show how the built environment can work in tandem with practices and discourses to provide a space for encountering the divine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor more information: http:\/\/arthistorypi.org\/books\/building-a-sacred-mountain\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Washington Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47124931641584,"sku":"9780295805351","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780295805351_p0.jpg?v=1763683065","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780295805351","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}