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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Summary language: Chinese, Japanese Series: Asian religions and society seriesPublication details: Vancouver : UBC Press, c2004.Description: x, 382 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 203/.095 22
LOC classification:
  • BL1033 .I45 2004eb
Online resources:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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Includes some text in Chinese and Japanese ; some bibliographical references in Chinese and Japanese.

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