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With a single glance : Buddhist icon and early Mikkyō vision / Cynthea J. Bogel.
Fine Arts Library N8193.3.T3 B64 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bogel, Cynthea J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tantric-Buddhist art--Japan.
- Tantric-Buddhist art.
- Japan.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 476 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Pt. 1. Definitions and dynamics. Ch. 1. Esoteric Buddhism and Mikkyō
- Ch. 2. A religion of images
- Ch. 3. The function of icons and visuality as function
- Pt. 2. Mikkyō visual culture and its sources. Ch. 4. Kūkai and China : inheriting Mikkyō visual culture
- Ch. 5. Kūkai and Japan : transmitting Mikkyō visual culture
- Pt. 3. Visions and cosmologies. Ch. 6. Sight and syncretism
- Ch. 7. What they saw : the image looks back
- Pt. 4. Vision, ritual, and imagery. Ch. 8. Contemplations and contemplative imagery
- Ch. 9. Mikkyō ritual and imagery within ritual
- Pt. 5. Choreographies of ritual space. Ch. 10. Mikkyō topographies : the spaces icons inhabited
- Ch. 11. The Tōji Karma mandala
- Glossary of Japanese characters
- Notes
- Selected bibliography.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780295989204
- 0295989203
- OCLC:
- 298669052
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