Images, miracles, and authority in Asian religious traditions - Davis, Richard H (Ed) (Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1998)
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
Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-239)
Keywords: Idols and images -- Asia -- Worship; Miracles; Asia -- Religion