Framing the Jina

narratives of icons and idols in Jain history

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English
Pages
398

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Cover of: Framing the Jina
Framing the Jina: narratives of icons and idols in Jain history
2009, Oxford University Press
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Table of Contents

Lives, frames, terms
The archaeology of Jina images
Icons and cosmology : a cosmos filled with eternal icons and temples
The spread of icons in our world
The lifetime "living Lord" icon of Mahavira : anxiety about the authenticity of icons
Idols and a history of corruption
The inevitability of tangible form : a natural theology of icons
Framing the Jina.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Oxford, New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
294.4/37
Library of Congress
BL1375.S97 C76 2009, BL1375.S97C76 2009, BL1375.S97 C76 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
398

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23186951M
Internet Archive
framingjinanarra00cort
ISBN 13
9780195385021
LCCN
2009011339
OCLC/WorldCat
316736951
Goodreads
7322094

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