Long Life

Contents: Dietrich Seckel: Preface - Li-yun Bauer-Hsieh: The Stage on the Stage. Stage constructions on Temple Roofs in Southern China - Lars Berglund: His bimo is outstanding! An album of poetry, calligraphy and painting by Cheng Shifa (b 1921) - Helmut Brinker: Bokunô: Ink Farmer's Brush Traces - Li-Qing Dai: Re-interpreting the Explanation of 'lian' er bufan in Sun Guoting's Treatise on Calligraphy from Standard Cursive Script - Franziska Ehmcke: Reflections on the use of the word culture in the context of art: Do contemporary artists from China, Japan and Korea convey an «East Asian perspective»? - Jan Fontein: Xuankongsi, the Monastery Suspended from the Sky - Young-pil Kwon: The «Clash of Civilizations» and the Reconciliation with Art: Focussing on the Early Western Style Painting in Japan and China - Jeong-hee Lee-Kalisch: Synaesthesia in Chinese Landscape Painting - Ursula Lienert: Some Aspects of Animal-shaped Lamps of the Han-Period (206 BCE-220 CE) - Rob Linrothe: Two Fieldnotes from Zangskar: A Kashmiri Sculpture in a Personal Shrine, and an Etymology of «Kanakani» Chorten - Christian Luczanits: Alchi and the Drigungpa School of Tibetan Buddhism: The Teacher Depiction in the Small Chörten at Alchi - Kyôtaro Nishikawa: Historical Traditions in the Preservation of Japanese Art - Antje Papist-Matsuo: Form and Colour: On the Decoration of Negoro Lacquers - Willibald Veit: Long Life for Tenthousand Years without End - Roderick Whitfield: The Harvard Buddha Reconsidered.