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Behold the Buddha : religious meanings of Japanese Buddhist icons
Title:
Behold the Buddha : religious meanings of Japanese Buddhist icons
Author:
Dobbins, James C., 1949- author.
ISBN:
9780824879990
Physical Description:
xiv, 269 pages ; 21 cm
Contents:
Attraction and aversion to Buddhist icons -- The Buddhist image as sacred story -- The expressive detail: Buddhist symbolism and iconography -- Fully enlightened Buddhas -- Miraculous Bodhisattvas -- Other mythic Buddhist figures -- Buddhist icons as living entities -- Beyond the Buddha image.
Bibliographical References:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Field 805:
npmlib 10902052 BQ5115 J3 D63 ysh
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