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Buddhist icons and early Mikkyō vision

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With a single glance

Buddhist icons and early Mikkyō vision

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With a single glance: Buddhist icons and early Mikkyō vision
2009, University of Washington Press
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Table of 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 and palaces
Ch. 11. The Tōji Karma mandala
Glossary of Japanese characters
Notes
Selected bibliography.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Seattle

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
294.3/9250952
Library of Congress
N8193.3.T3 B64 2009, N8193.3.T3B64 2009

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Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL22974736M
ISBN 13
9780295989204
LCCN
2008056023
OCLC/WorldCat
298669052
Library Thing
9746983

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