Includes bibliographical references and index. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Includes some text in Chinese and Japanese ; some bibliographical references in Chinese and Japanese.

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.