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

Other author Granoff, P. E. (Phyllis Emily), 1947-
Other author Shinohara, Koichi, 1941-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoVancouver : UBC Press,
Descriptionx, 382 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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SeriesAsian religions and society series
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 Śaiva initiation / Hans Bakker -- The competing hermeneutics of image worship in Hinduism (fifth to eleventh century AD) / Gérard 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 Shūchō Mandara : reconstruction of the iconography and ritual context / Chari Pradel -- Ōbaku Zen portrait painting and its Sino-Japanese heritage / Elizabeth Horton Sharf -- Ritual and image at Angkor Wat / Robert L. Brown.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
LanguageIncludes some text in Chinese and Japanese ; some bibliographical references in Chinese and Japanese.
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2005440873
ISBN0774809485 (hard : alk. paper)

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