Localizing the Buddha realm : pictorial programs on fifth-century Chinese miniature pagodas / Jinchao Zhao -- Embodying compassion and contemplation across the Yellow Sea : Avalokiteśvara and pensive Bodhisattva images in sixth-century Hebei and Baekje / Li-kuei Chien -- Magnifying statuettes : reconsidering the artistic production of the earliest Buddha statues in Japan / Hong Wu -- Divergence in art inspired by the Golden Light Sūtra in China and Japan in the seventh and eighth centuries / Dorothy C. Wong -- The marble sculpture Maṇḍala of Scripture for Humane Kings excavated from Anguo Monastery in Xi'an : the initiation of vernacular esoteric Buddhism in East Asia / Imann Lai -- From state protector to local warrior : the transformation of Vaiśravaṇa in Sichuan form the 8th to the 10th century / Clara Ma -- A Chinese development in the hairstyle of Acalanātha images / Sakiko Takahashi -- The transmission of a miraculous Thousand-Armed Avalokiteśvara image from Southern Song China to Japan : images in Kōsan-ji, the Yūgensai Collection, and the Shiofune Kannon-ji / Suijun Ra -- The iconography of the Kiyomizu Temple-Style Thousand-Armed Avalokiteśvara / Tamami Hamada
