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The Heavenly Eye in Caves

Published on Nov 22, 2017

This seminar titled "The Heavenly Eye in Caves" was given by Eugene Wang (Harvard University) at the Centre of Buddhist Studies, SOAS University of London on 7 October 2017.

The Buddhist Cave Paintings of the Mogao Grottoes in China

Published on Dec 1, 2015

CAS / Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 

MillerComm Lecture - Eugene Y. Wang

 

Lectures and Speeches
CAm Lab Productions

Mind in The Cave

Mind In the Cave (Trailer) – research and development of art films and audio-visual multimedia installations that replicate the imaginary universe and meditative experience of embellished Buddhist caves.

 

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Space-Time in Mogao Cave 254

This video explores the underlying design principal of Mogao Cave 254. It demonstrates the cave was conceptualized as a cosmological view of a “heavenly eye”, a mental ability achieved through meditation. The cave, like a theatre in the mind, unfolds breathtaking visual experiences when the “heavenly eye” penetrates Time and Space and witnesses the cyclicality of all existence as well as the intertwining past and future as a chain of cause and effect.

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Mogao Films
Publications

NHK: The Beauty of Mogao Cave (I)

 

Mogao Cave E37, World Heritage in China

 

Selected Publications by Prof Eugene Wang
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What Do Trigrams Have to Do with Buddhas? The Northern Liang Stupas as a Hybrid Spatial Model
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The Shadow Image in the Cave: Discourse on Icons
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Refiguring: The Visual Rhetoric of the Sixth-Century Northern Wei 'Filial Piety' Engravings
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Painted Statue in an Optical Theater: A Fifth-Century Chinese Buddhist Cave
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Patterns Above and Within: The Picture of the Turning Sphere and Medieval Chinese Astral Imagination
 
Mirror, Moon, and Memory in Eighth-Century China: From Dragon Pond to Lunar Palace​
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Where Did the Picture of the Auspicious Omen Come from? Manufacture of Sites and Sights in Seventh-Century China
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Oneiric Horizons and Dissolving Bodies: Buddhist Cave Shrine as Mirror Hall​
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Ritual Practice without Practitioner? Early Eleventh Century Dharani Prints in the Ruiguangsi Pagoda​​​​​​​​

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