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Arts of Asia Lecture Series Fall 2015 Asia’s Storied Traditions Sponsored by The Society for Asian Art September  11,  2015  

Displaying  the  Past:  Pictorial  Depictions  of  the  Buddhist  Myths  and  Legends  of  the  Kathmandu   Valley   (Alexander  von  Rospatt,  University  of  California,  Berkeley)     The  Svayambhūpurāṇa  (which  is  extant  in  various  versions  of  different  length  that  started  to  take  shape   towards  the  beginning  of  the  fifteenth  century)  can  be  viewed  as  a  response  to  the  loss  of  the  Buddhist   heartland  on  the  Gangetic  plain  since  the  thirteenth  century,  though  it  also  incorporates  materials  that   presumably  predate  the  disappearance  of  Buddhism  in  India  proper.  These  legends  render  the   Kathmandu  Valley,  the  historical  Nepal,  a  sacred  Buddhist  land,  independently  from  India.  The  principal   device  forachieving  this  is  the  Svayambhū  myth.  It  relates  that  in  prehistoric  times,  Nepal  was  a  sacred   lake  on  which  the  primordial  Buddha  principle  (dharmadhātu)  manifested  (bhū)  itself  spontaneously   (svayam)  in  the  formof  a  light  or  luminous  caitya  on  the  pericarp  of  a  lotus  blossom.  The  present  day   caitya  of  Svayambhū  is  believed  to  be  a  shrine  built  over  this  divine  manifestation  as  a  protective  cover.   (See  von  Rospatt  2009)     As  the  most  important  narrative  of  the  Buddhist  tradition  of  Nepal  the  Svayambhūpurāṇa,  or  scenes   from  it,  have  been  depicted  numerous  times:     • Mural  paintings  in  the  tantric  shrine  of  Śāntipur  adjacent  to  the  great  Svayambhū  caitya  close   toKathmandu,  which  were  commissioned  by  King  Pratāpa  Malla  (1624–74  CE).  The  same  king'sincursion   into  the  forbidden  interiors  of  Śāntipur  in  June  1658  are  illustrated  in  an  annotated  pictorial  drawing  of   this  shrine's  three-­‐tiered  mandalaic  structure.  (See  von  Rospatt  2014).     •

Scroll  (dating  from  1635)  housed  in  the  Cleveland  Museum  of  Art.  (See  Slusser  1979).    

• Painting  from  the  mid  19  century  of  the  Svayambhūpurāṇa  and  Maṇicūḍāvadāna  belonging  to   theMusée  Guimet  at  Paris.  (See  Lienhard  2009)     th



Scroll  (from  1856?)  kept  in  the  Virginia  Museum  of  Fine  Arts.    

• Painting  (19  or  early  20  century?)  from  Maru  Bāhāḥ,  a  monastery  in  Kathmandu,  capturing  the   principal  scene  of  the  Svayambhū  myth,  the  draining  of  the  lake.       th

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Select  Readings     Lienhard,  Siegfried.  2009.  Svayambhūpurāṇa:  Mythe  du  Népal;  suivi  du  Maṇicūḍāvadāna:  légende  du  prince   Maṇicūḍā.  Suilly  la  Tour:  Éditions  Findakly.     von  Rospatt,  Alexander.  2009.  “The  Sacred  Origins  of  the  Svayambhūcaitya  and  the  Nepal  Valley:  Foreign   Speculation  and  Local  Myth.”  In  Journal  of  the  Nepal  Research  Centre  13:  33-­‐91.  Kathmandu:  Nepal  Research  Centre.     von  Rospatt,  Alexander.  “The  Mural  Paintings  of  the  Svayambhūpurāṇa  at  the  Shrine  of  Śantipur,  and  their  Origins   with  Pratāpa  Malla.”  In  Benjamin  E.  Bogin  and  Andrew  Quintman,  eds.,  New  Research  in  Himalayan  Passages  in   Honor  of  Hubert  Decleer.  Somerville,  MA:  Wisdom  Publications,  2014,  pp.  45-­‐68.     Slusser,  Mary.  "Serpents,  Sages,  and  Sorcerers  in  Cleveland."  Bullet.  of  the  Cleveland  Museum  of  Art  66.2,  1979,  pp.   67-­‐82.    

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