Imaging Wisdom: Seeing and Knowing in the Art of Indian BuddhismThis book contributes to the history of religions and Buddhist studies fields by focussing on what is a far too frequently ignored aspect of religious experience: visual images. |
Contents
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CHAPTER TWO Present Presence Present Absence | 25 |
CHAPTER THREE Imaging and Imagining the Buddha | 45 |
CHAPTER FOUR The Image of Wisdom | 79 |
CHAPTER FIVE Representing Prajñāpāramitā | 114 |
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Imaging Wisdom: Seeing and Knowing in the Art of Indian Buddhism Jacob N. Kinnard Limited preview - 1999 |
Imaging Wisdom: Seeing and Knowing in the Art of Indian Buddhism Jacob N. Kinnard Limited preview - 2001 |
Imaging Wisdom: Seeing and Knowing in the Art of Indian Buddhism Jacob N. Kinnard No preview available - 1999 |
Common terms and phrases
aniconic argue Avalokites'vara Bhattacharyya Bhavaviveka bhikkhu Bodhgaya Bodhi Bodhisattva Bourdieu Buddha Buddha Image Buddhist Art Buddhist Sculptures Buddhist Studies Calcutta Cambridge century chapter commentary complex conception context Conze Cult Cunda Dacca deity Delhi depicted Dharani dharma dharmacakra discussion divine doctrinal emphasis enlightenment Faxian field fig figure find fonn goddess habitus historians of religions History Huntington ibid icon iconographic identification Indian Buddhist influence instance Janice Leoshko Journal lbid London Mafijus'ri Mahayana Malandra Mara medieval meditation metapractical metapraxis methodological monk mother Museum Nalanda object ofthe Buddha Oriental Orissa Pala milieu Pala period Pala-period Buddhists Pali Text Society particularly passage perfection of wisdom perhaps photo courtesy physical practice prajfia Prajfiaparamita presence reflection relics religious represented ritual Sadaprarudita Sakyamuni Sanskrit scholars Schopen seen sense significant significantly specific Stone symbol Tambiah Tara Taranatha Tathagata textual discourse translation University Press Upagupta Vajrayana Vakkali veneration verse visual images Visuddhimagga worship Xuanzang