Além das palavras de Gautama

摘要

The research of the Japanese Buddhist Sculpture, due to its complexity, demands a methodology scientifically able to sort out principles which could legitimize it as art. Through any Buddhist statue, even a simple one like “fat buddha’，or Japanese buddhist temples masterpieces, it is aimed in this article to relate a web of iconographic，historical and legendary references whose extension exceeds the limits of western artistic conventions，the restriction imposed by methodological cutting outs and the asiatic geographical frontiers.