Images in Asian religions : texts and contexts / / edited by Phyllis Granoff and Koichi Shinohara.

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Superior document:Asian religions and society series
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Year of Publication:2004
Language:English
Series:Asian religions and society series.
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Physical Description:x, 382 p. :; ill.
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Table of Contents:
  • Images and their ritual use in medieval India : hesitations and contradictions / Phyllis Granoff
  • Theology as history : divine images, imagination, and rituals in India / Gilles Tarabout
  • Of metal and cloths : the location of distinctive features in divine iconography (Indian Himalayas) / Daniela Berti
  • At the right side of the teacher : imagination, imagery, and image in Vedic and ?Saiva initiation / Hans Bakker
  • The competing hermeneutics of image worship in Hinduism (fifth to eleventh century AD) / G?erard Colas
  • Stories of miraculous images and paying repect to the three jewels : a discourse on image worship in seventh-century China / Koichi Shinohara
  • Icon and incantation : the goddess Zhunti and the role of images in the occult Buddhism of China / Robert M. Gimello
  • The Tenjukoju Sh?uch?o Mandara : reconstruction of the iconography and ritual context / Chari Pradel
  • ?Obaku Zen portrait painting and its Sino-Japanese heritage / Elizabeth Horton Sharf
  • Ritual and image at Angkor Wat / Robert L. Brown.