Images in Asian religions : texts and contexts edited by Phyllis Granoff and Koichi Shinohara. electronic resource
Material type: TextSeries: Asian religions and society seriesPublication details: Vancouver UBC Press c2004Description: x, 382 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject(s): Asie - Religion | Idoles et images - Asie - Culte | Asie - Vie religieuse | Idols and images - Asia - Worship | Asia - Religion | Asia - Religious life and customsDDC classification: 203/.095 Online access: Open e-book (Ruskin students only)Item type | Current library | Home library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations | |
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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.
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