Andy Rotman

Thus Have I Seen (eBook, ePUB)

Visualizing Faith in Early Indian Buddhism

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a new approach to understanding Buddhist lay and monastic practice by recognizing the crucial role that visual practices played in Indian Buddhism in the early centuries of the Common Era. In the genre of Indian Buddhist narratives known as avadana, most lay religious practice consists not of reading, praying, or meditating, but of visually engaging with certain kinds of objects. The key for understanding the Buddhist conceptualization about the world and the ways it should be navigated is found, in these stories, in ways of seeing and the results of seeing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190451172
• Artikelnr.: 42727065

Autorenporträt

Assistant Professor, Department of Religion, Smith College

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: The Practice of ?raddh?
1: Seeing and Knowing
2: Getting and Giving
Part II: The Practice of pras?da
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 Divy?vad?na
Bibliography