Thus have I seen : visualizing faith in early Indian Buddhism / Andy Rotman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rotman, Andy, 1966-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tripiṭaka. Sūtrapiṭaka. Avadāna. Divyāvadāna.

Tripiṭaka.

Faith (Buddhism).

Vision--Religious aspects--Buddhism.

Vision.

Spiritual life--Buddhism.

Spiritual life.

Buddhism--Doctrines.

Buddhism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Andy Rotman offers an approach to understanding Buddhist lay and monastic practice by recognising the crucial role that visual practices played in Indian Buddhism in the early centuries of the Common Era.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; Part I: The Practice of Sraddha; 1. Seeing and Knowing; 2. Getting and Giving; Part II: The Practice of Prasada; 3. Agency and Intentionality; 4. Participation and Exclusion; 5. Proximity and Presence; 6. Politics and Aesthetics; Part III: Seeing the Buddha; 7. Past and Present; 8. Images and Imagination; Epilogue; Appendix: Contents of the Divyavadana ; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-310) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-045117-3

0-19-971076-7

1-281-98071-4

9786611980719

OCLC:

327887438