{"id":571,"date":"2018-05-30T16:28:32","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T16:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/?p=571"},"modified":"2018-05-30T16:32:19","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T16:32:19","slug":"bapst-library-receives-multi-volume-encyclopedia-of-buddhist-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/bapst-library-receives-multi-volume-encyclopedia-of-buddhist-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"Bapst Library Receives Multi Volume Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-574\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_6967.jpg\" alt=\"Chris Strauber, Julie Hughes, and Fine Arts faculty Aurelia Campbell accepted the gift on January 28th at the Fo Guang Shan Temple.\" width=\"888\" height=\"666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_6967.jpg 888w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_6967-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_6967-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 888px) 100vw, 888px\" \/>In January 2018, Fo Guang Shan Buddhist Temple in Cambridge donated a 22 volume English Language Encyclopedia of Buddhist Art to the Boston College Libraries.\u00a0 The Fo Guang Shan Temple congregation has 250 temples around the world and this encyclopedia represents the collective 12-years long effort of many monks and scholars.\u00a0 The encyclopedia has nearly 10, 000 entries, over 14, 000 pictures, and appears to be the first comprehensive reference collection of Buddhist art in the world.\u00a0\u00a0 This gift was enthusiastically welcomed by Fine Arts, Theology, and Asian Studies faculty as a valuable and much needed addition to the Boston College Libraries\u2019 collection on Buddhism. \u00a0Chris Strauber, Julie Hughes, and Fine Arts faculty Aurelia Campbell accepted the gift on January 28<sup>th<\/sup> at the Fo Guang Shan Temple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first comprehensive reference collection of Buddhist art is now available at Bapst library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[62],"series":[61],"coauthors":[21],"class_list":["post-571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article","tag-summer-2018","series-summer-2018"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":576,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions\/576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=571"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}