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With a single glance: Buddhist icons and early Mikkyō vision
2009, University of Washington Press
in English
- 1st ed.
0295989203 9780295989204
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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.
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