ABSTRACT

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.

chapter 1|24 pages

Imagining Images

chapter 2|20 pages

Present Presence, Present Absence

chapter 3|34 pages

Imaging and Imagining the Buddha

chapter 4|35 pages

The Image of Wisdom

chapter 5|50 pages

Representing Prajñāpāramitā

chapter 6|28 pages

The Book is the Thing

chapter 7|6 pages

Seeing and Knowing