Halle O'Neal is Chancellor's Fellow and Lecturer at the Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
O'Neal's new book untangles these mandalas' visual and performative
complexity. Impressively researched and broadly conceived, the five
chapters of this study investigate the key aspects of the jeweled
pagoda mandalas' composition, their textual and visual content, and
the historical and cross-cultural contexts of their
production...The feast of visual material investigated in O'Neal's
book is so rich. -- Anna Andreeva * Journal of Japanese Studies
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Lively, provocative, and ambitious...Stands out as a very
impressive, well-researched, satisfying, and nearly exhaustive
study of relatively undocumented paintings and their historical
circumstances...Serves in many ways as a model for scholarship on
premodern Japanese Buddhist icons. -- Cynthea J. Bogel * Monumenta
Nipponica *
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