Images, miracles, and authority in Asian religious traditions
Davis, Richard H (Ed)
Images, miracles, and authority in Asian religious traditions edited by Richard H. Davis - Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1998 - 239 p., [18] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-239)
Introduction : miracles as social acts / Richard H. Davis -- Expected miracles : the unsurprisingly miraculous nature of Buddhist images and relics / Robert L. Brown -- The miraculous Buddha image : portrait, God, or object? / Robert L. Brown -- Divine delicacies : monks, images, and miracles in the contest between Jainism and Buddhism / Phyllis Granoff -- Miraculous Abhiseka : miracle and authority in a South Indian non-Brahmin lineage / K.I. Koppedrayer -- The Jina bleeds : threats to the faith and the rescue of the faithful in Medieval Jain stories / Phyllis Granoff -- Changing roles for miraculous images in Medieval Chinese Buddhism : a study of the miracle image section in Daoxuan's "Collected Records" / Koichi Shinohara -- Dynastic politics and miraculous images : the example of Zhuli of the Changlesi Temple in Yangzhou / Koichi Shinohara -- The replication of miraculous images : the Zenkoji Amida and the Seiryoji Shaka / Donald F. McCallum
0813334632 (hardcover : alk. paper)
98009211
Idols and images--Worship--Asia
Miracles
Asia--Religion
BL1035 / .I43 1998 BL1035 / .I43 1998
291.3/7/095
Images, miracles, and authority in Asian religious traditions edited by Richard H. Davis - Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1998 - 239 p., [18] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-239)
Introduction : miracles as social acts / Richard H. Davis -- Expected miracles : the unsurprisingly miraculous nature of Buddhist images and relics / Robert L. Brown -- The miraculous Buddha image : portrait, God, or object? / Robert L. Brown -- Divine delicacies : monks, images, and miracles in the contest between Jainism and Buddhism / Phyllis Granoff -- Miraculous Abhiseka : miracle and authority in a South Indian non-Brahmin lineage / K.I. Koppedrayer -- The Jina bleeds : threats to the faith and the rescue of the faithful in Medieval Jain stories / Phyllis Granoff -- Changing roles for miraculous images in Medieval Chinese Buddhism : a study of the miracle image section in Daoxuan's "Collected Records" / Koichi Shinohara -- Dynastic politics and miraculous images : the example of Zhuli of the Changlesi Temple in Yangzhou / Koichi Shinohara -- The replication of miraculous images : the Zenkoji Amida and the Seiryoji Shaka / Donald F. McCallum
0813334632 (hardcover : alk. paper)
98009211
Idols and images--Worship--Asia
Miracles
Asia--Religion
BL1035 / .I43 1998 BL1035 / .I43 1998
291.3/7/095