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Images, miracles, and authority in Asian religious traditions

1999; Association of College and Research Libraries; Volume: 36; Issue: 06 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5860/choice.36-3287

1943-5975

Richard H. Davis,

Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography

Introduction: Miracles as Social Acts (Richard H. Davis. ) Expected Miracles: The Unsurprisingly Miraculous Nature of Buddhist Images and Relics (Robert L. Brown. ) The Miraculous Buddha Image: Portrait, God, or Object? (R. L. Brown. ) Divine Delicacies: Monks, Images, and Miracles in the Contest between Jainism and Buddhism (Phyllis Granoff. ) Miraculous Abhiseka: Miracle and Authority in a South Indian Non-brahmin Lineage ( K. I. Koppedrayer. ) The Jina Bleeds: Threats to the Faith and the Rescue of the Faithful in Medieval Jain Stories (P. Granoff. ) Changing Roles for Miraculous Images in Medieval Chinese Buddhism: A Study of the Miracle Image Section in Daoxuans Ji shenzhou (Koichi Shinohara. ) Dynastic Politics and Miraculous Images: The Example of Zhuli (544623) of the Changlesi Temple in Yangzhou (K. Shinohara. ) The Relication of Miraculous Icons: The Zenkoji Amida Triad and the Seiryoji Shaka (Donald F. McCallum.)