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001 2127974
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008 980107s1998 couaf b 000 0 eng
010 $a 98009211
020 $a0813334632 (hardcover : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm38249022
035 $9ANG8245CU
035 $a2127974
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dOrLoB-B
043 $aa------
050 00 $aBL1035$b.I43 1998
082 00 $a291.3/7/095$221
245 00 $aImages, miracles, and authority in Asian religious traditions /$cedited by Richard H. Davis.
260 $aBoulder, Colo. :$bWestview Press,$c1998.
300 $a239 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [227]-239).
505 00 $g1.$tIntroduction: Miracles as Social Acts /$rRichard H. Davis --$g2.$tExpected Miracles: The Unsurprisingly Miraculous Nature of Buddhist Images and Relics /$rRobert L. Brown --$g3.$tThe Miraculous Buddha Image: Portrait, God, or Object? /$rRobert L. Brown --$g4.$tDivine Delicacies: Monks, Images, and Miracles in the Contest between Jainism and Buddhism /$rPhyllis Granoff --$g5.$tMiraculous Abhiseka: Miracle and Authority in a South Indian Non-Brahmin Lineage /$rK. I. Koppedrayer --$g6.$tThe Jina Bleeds: Threats to the Faith and the Rescue of the Faithful in Medieval Jain Stories /$rPhyllis Granoff --$g7.$tChanging Roles for Miraculous Images in Medieval Chinese Buddhism: A Study of the Miracle Image Section in Daoxuan's "Collected Records," /$rKoichi Shinohara --$g8.$tDynastic Politics and Miraculous Images: The Example of Zhuli of the Changlesi Temple in Yangzhou /$rKoichi Shinohara --$g9.$tThe Replication of Miraculous Images: The Zenkoji Amida and the Seiryoji Shaka /$rDonald F. McCallum.
520 $aIn this edited volume, Richard Davis and his colleagues examine how religious images are understood by practitioners in Asia, how the "miracles" associated with these images are to some degree programmed by expectations and responses, and how such religious events interrelate with political and social change and conflict.
520 8 $aThis important contribution to Asian studies and to the comparative study of religion should interest not only scholars of Asian religious texts but also students of Asian art history, architecture, and archaeology.
651 0 $aAsia$xReligion.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114280
650 0 $aIdols and images$zAsia$xWorship.
650 0 $aMiracles.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85085930
700 1 $aDavis, Richard H.
852 00 $bglx$hBL1035$i.I43 1998