Imaging Wisdom: Seeing and Knowing in the Art of Indian Buddhism

by Jacob N Kinnard

Overview

This 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780700710836
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/04/1999
Series:	Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
Pages:	238
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

CHAPTER ONE 1 Imagining Images CHAPTER TWO Present Presence, Present Absence CHAPTER THREE Imaging and Imagining the Buddha CHAPTER FOUR The Image of Wisdom CHAPTER FIVE Representing Prajnaparamita CHAPTER SIX The Book is the Thing CHAPTER SEVEN Seeing and Knowing, References