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Author Rotman, Andy, 1966-

Title Thus have I seen : visualizing faith in early Indian Buddhism / Andy Rotman
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford Univ. Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 323 pages)
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-310) and index
Notes Print version record
SUBJECT Tripiṭaka. Sūtrapiṭaka. Avadāna. Divyāvadāna. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85289548
Tripiṭaka. Sūtrapiṭaka. Avadāna. Divyāvadāna fast
Subject Faith (Buddhism)
Vision -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism.
Spiritual life -- Buddhism.
Buddhism -- Doctrines.
RELIGION -- Buddhism -- Sacred Writings.
Vision -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism
Buddhism -- Doctrines
Faith (Buddhism)
Spiritual life -- Buddhism
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780199710768
0199710767
0195366158
9780195366150