Images in Asian religions texts and contexts
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 o...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Vancouver :
UBC Press
2004.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Asian religions and society series. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b34661360*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
