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Images, miracles, and authority in Asian religious traditions edited by Richard H. Davis
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TextPublication details: Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1998Description: 239 p., [18] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: - 0813334632 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 291.3/7/095 21
- BL1035 .I43 1998
- BL1035 .I43 1998
Contents:
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
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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
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