Resumen de "Zhenrong" to "Ruixiang": the medieval Chinese reception of the Mahabodhi Buddha statue
Two related historical trajectories surround the medieval Chinese reception of the Buddha statue at the Mahabodhi Temple in Bodhgaya, India: first, the shift in the perception of the ontological status of the image from "as if real" to the "real", and second, the transmission and the subsequent replication of the foreign image in China as "ruixiang", or an auspicious image. While the awareness of the Indian prototype as substituting the real presence of the Buddha grew stronger, the medieval Chinese produced "ruixiang" as a material mediation of the divine presence.
