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Images in Asian religions : texts and contexts / edited by Phyllis Granoff and Koichi Shinohara. - Vancouver : UBC Press, ©2004. - 1 online resource (x, 382 pages) : illustrations. - - Asian religions and society series . - Asian religions and society series. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Images and their ritual use in medieval India : hesitations and contradictions / Theology as history : divine images, imagination, and rituals in India / Of metal and cloths : the location of distinctive features in divine iconography (Indian Himalayas) / At the right side of the teacher : imagination, imagery, and image in Vedic and Śaiva initiation / The competing hermeneutics of image worship in Hinduism (fifth to eleventh century AD) / Stories of miraculous images and paying repect to the three jewels : a discourse on image worship in seventh-century China / Icon and incantation : the goddess Zhunti and the role of images in the occult Buddhism of China / The Tenjukoju Shūchō Mandara : reconstruction of the iconography and ritual context / Ōbaku Zen portrait painting and its Sino-Japanese heritage / Ritual and image at Angkor Wat / Phyllis Granoff -- Gilles Tarabout -- Daniela Berti -- Hans Bakker -- Gérard Colas -- Koichi Shinohara -- Robert M. Gimello -- Chari Pradel -- Elizabeth Horton Sharf -- Robert L. Brown.

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

ISBN: 9780774851107 0774851104 1283131072 9781283131070 9786613131072 6613131075

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Idols and images--Worship.--Asia
Idoles et images--Culte.--Asie
RELIGION--Reference.
Idols and images--Worship
Religion
Religion
Bild
Godsdiensten.
Beeld.
Idoles et images--Culte.--Asie

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Asia--Religious life and customs.
Asia--Religion.
Asie--Vie religieuse.
Asie--Religion.
Asia
Asien
Asie--Vie religieuse.
Asie--Religion.

Subjects--Index Terms: Asian religions Images

LC Class. No.: BL1033 / .I45 2004eb

Dewey Class. No.: 203/.095