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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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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. v-vi
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Foreword
  2. Numata Toshihide
  3. pp. ix-x
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  1. Acknowledgements
  2. pp. xi-xii
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  1. Introduction
  2. Phyllis Granoff, Koichi Shinohara
  3. pp. 1-16
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  1. Part 1: Defining Images: The Sacred Objects of Indian Religions
  1. 1. Images and Their Ritual Use in Medieval India: Hesitations and Contradictions
  2. Phyllis Granoff
  3. pp. 19-55
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  1. 2. Theology as History: Divine Images, Imagination, and Rituals in India
  2. Gilles Tarabout
  3. pp. 56-84
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  1. 3. Of Metal and Cloths: The Location of Distinctive Features in Divine Iconography (Indian Himalayas)
  2. Daniela Berti
  3. pp. 85-114
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  1. Part 2: Images and the Elite Intellectual Culture: Accommodations and Ambiguities
  1. 4. At the Right Side of the Teacher: Imagination, Imagery, and Image in Vedic and Śaiva Initiation
  2. Hans Bakker
  3. pp. 117-148
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  1. 5. The Competing Hermeneutics of Image Worship in Hinduism (Fifth to Eleventh Century AD)
  2. Gérard Colas
  3. pp. 149-179
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  1. 6. Stories of Miraculous Images and Paying Respect to the Three Jewels: A Discourse on Image Worship in Seventh-Century China
  2. Koichi Shinohara
  3. pp. 180-222
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  1. Part 3: Re-creating the Context of Image Worship: Four Case Studies
  1. 7. Icon and Incantation: The Goddess Zhunti and the Role of Images in the Occult Buddhism of China
  2. Robert M. Gimello
  3. pp. 225-256
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  1. 8. The Tenjukoku Shucho Mandara: Reconstruction of the Iconography and Ritual Context
  2. Chari Pradel
  3. pp. 257-289
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  1. 9. Obaku Zen Portrait Painting and Its Sino-Japanese Heritage
  2. Elizabeth Horton Sharf
  3. pp. 290-345
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  1. 10. Ritual and Image at Angkor Wat
  2. Robert L. Brown
  3. pp. 346-366
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 367-382
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