This collection offers a challenge to any simple understanding of the role of images by looking at aspects of the reception of image worship that have only begun to be studied, including the many hesitations that Asian religious traditions expressed about image worship. Written by eminent scholars of anthropology, art history, and religion with interests in different regions (India, China, Japan, and Southeast Asia), this volume takes a fresh look at the many ways in which images were defined and received in Asian religions.
Buddha Dharma Kyokai Foundation Book on Buddhism and Comparative Religion
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- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- 203/.095
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- 22
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- I43 2004eb
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- 1 electronic text (x, 382 p.)
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Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Contributors 8
- Foreword 10
- Acknowledgements 12
- Introduction 16
- PART 1 Defining Images: The Sacred Objects of Indian Religions 32
- 1 Images and Their Ritual Use in Medieval India: Hesitations and Contradictions 34
- 2 Theology as History: Divine Images, Imagination, and Rituals in India 71
- 3 Of Metal and Cloths: The Location of Distinctive Features in Divine Iconography (Indian Himalayas) 100
- PART 2 Images and the Elite Intellectual Culture: Accommodations and Ambiguities 130
- 4 At the Right Side of the Teacher: Imagination, Imagery, and Image in Vedic and Śaiva Initiation 132
- 5 The Competing Hermeneutics of Image Worship in Hinduism (Fifth to Eleventh Century AD) 164
- 6 Stories of Miraculous Images and Paying Respect to the Three Jewels: A Discourse on Image Worship in Seventh-Century China 195
- PART 3 Re-creating the Context of Image Worship: Four Case Studies 238
- 7 Icon and Incantation: The Goddess Zhunti and the Role of Images in the Occult Buddhism of China 240
- 8 The Tenjukoku Shucho Mandara: Reconstruction of the Iconography and Ritual Context 272
- 9 Obaku Zen Portrait Painting and Its Sino-Japanese Heritage 305
- 10 Ritual and Image at Angkor Wat 361
- Index 382
- A 382
- B 383
- C 384
- D 385
- E 386
- F 386
- G 387
- H 387
- I 387
- J 388
- K 389
- L 389
- M 390
- N 391
- O 391
- P 391
- Q 392
- R 392
- S 393
- T 395
- U 396
- V 396
- W 396
- X 396
- Y 397
- Z 397
