Under the Gaze of the Buddha Mega-Statue: Commodification and Humanistic Buddhism at Fo Guang Shan
By Edward Irons
27 pagesLike an object circling the sun, the visitor senses she is within the gravitational pull of a powerful entity.
An analysis of the Fo Guang Shan Buddha Museum’s immense Buddha statue and its rich dàochǎng 道場: a bodhimaṇḍala for the (postmodern) human realm.