Mudra : : A Study of Symbolic Gestures in Japanese Buddhist Sculpture / / Ernest Dale Saunders.
Appearing for the first time in paperback and illustrated with line drawings, diagrams, and 26 half-tone plates, this study of the iconographic aspect of Japanese Buddhist sculpture surveys the significance of eight principal and six secondary hand gestures (mudra), in addition to the postures (asan...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018] ©1960 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Bollingen Series (General) ;
619 |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Mudra: A PICTORIAL INDEX
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF PLATES
- LIST OF TEXT FIGURES
- NOTE ON PRONUNCIATION
- I. INTRODUCTION
- II. The Principal Symbolic Gestures
- III. Six Secondary Mudra and the Äsana
- IV. The Attributes
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY AND ABBREVIATIONS
- INDEX