Introduction -- Buddha images and devotees : lineages of people and places -- Buddha images and the monkhood : monastic political power beyond the cloister -- Buddha images and place : materializing the Buddha's agency in the landscape -- Buddha images and relics : form, place, and history -- Buddha images as objects of donation : intention, wishes, and economic value in inscriptions on the bases of images -- Buddha images as objects of transferrable power : the physical and social processes of copying images.