Transmitting the forms of divinity : early Buddhist art from Korea and Japan / Washizuka Hiromitsu, Park Youngbok and Kang Woo-bang ; [contributors, Ariga Yoshitaka ... et al. ; edited by Naomi Noble Richard].

Exhibition presented at Japan Society Gallery, New York, from April 9 through June 22, 2003 and organized by Japan Society and the Korea Society, New York in association with the Gyeongju National Museum, the Nara National Museum, the Japan Foundation, and the Korea Foundation.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 360-365) and index.

Preface / William Clark, Jr. and Donald Gregg -- Foreword and Acknowledgements / Alexandra Munroe -- Introduction: The Transmission and Transformation of Early Buddhist Culture in Korea and Japan / Jonathan Best -- From the Stone Buddhas of Longxingsi to Buddhist Images of Three Kingdoms Korea and Asuka-Hakuho Japan / Tanabe Saburosuke -- The Monastery Koryuji's "Crowned Maitreya" and the Stone Pensive Bodhisattva Excavated at Longxingsi / Onishi Shuya -- Early Korean Buddhist Sculptures and Related Japanese Examples: Iconographic and Stylistic Comparisons / Kim Lena -- Korean Gilt-Bronze Single Mandorla Buddha Triads and the Dissemination of East Asian Sculptural Style / Kwak Dong-seok -- Korean Elements in Japanese Pictorial Representation in the Early Asuka Period / Ariga Yoshitaka -- A New Theory: Ki as Represented in Koguryo Murals and Buddhist Haloes of the Three Kingdoms Period / Kang Woo-bang -- Todaiji's Great Buddha: Its Foundation in Buddhist Doctrine and Its Chinese and Korean Precedents / Konno Toshifumi -- Techniques of Early Buddhist Sculpture in Japan / Washizuka Hiromitsu -- The Monastery Hwangnyongsa and Buddhism of the Early Silla Period / Park Youngbok -- The Monastery Horyuji: Architectural Forms of Early Buddhism in Japan / Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt -- The Art of Avatamsaka Sutra in the Unified Silla Period: The Sanctuary of Sokkuram and Hwaom-kyong Pyonsangdo (Narrative Portrayal in the Avatamsaka Sutra) / Kang Woo-bang -- Early Korean and Japanese Reliquaries in Relation to Pagoda Architecture / Choi Eung-chon -- Buddhist Sculpture -- Sutras and Ritual Objects -- Tiles from Temples -- Roof Tiles of Korea's Three Kingdoms and Unified Silla Periods / Kim Song-gu -- Korean Influence and Japanese Innovation in Tiles of the Asuka-Hakuho Period / Mori Ikuo.

Comparing Korean and Japanese Buddhist art, this volume explores the cultural, ideological and artistic exchange between the two countries during the 6th-9th centuries, when Buddhism took hold throughout northeast Asia. Buddhist sculptures in gilt bronze, wood and stone are the main focus of this work, which contains essays by Korean, Japanese and American scholars.