Images, miracles, and authority in Asian religious traditions /
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Boulder, Colo. :
Westview Press,
1998.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : miracles as social acts / Richard H. Davis
- Expected miracles : the unsurprisingly miraculous nature of Buddhist images and relics / Robert L. Brown
- The miraculous Buddha image : portrait, God, or object? / Robert L. Brown
- Divine delicacies : monks, images, and miracles in the contest between Jainism and Buddhism / Phyllis Granoff
- Miraculous Abhiseka : miracle and authority in a South Indian non-Brahmin lineage / K.I. Koppedrayer
- The Jina bleeds : threats to the faith and the rescue of the faithful in Medieval Jain stories / Phyllis Granoff
- Changing roles for miraculous images in Medieval Chinese Buddhism : a study of the miracle image section in Daoxuan's "Collected Records" / Koichi Shinohara
- Dynastic politics and miraculous images : the example of Zhuli of the Changlesi Temple in Yangzhou / Koichi Shinohara
- The replication of miraculous images : the Zenkoji Amida and the Seiryoji Shaka / Donald F. McCallum.