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Behold the Buddha: religious meanings of Japanese Buddhist icons

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Attraction and aversion to Buddhist icons -- The Buddhist image as sacred story -- The expressive detail: Buddhist symbolism and iconography -- Fully enlightened Buddhas -- Miraculous Bodhisattvas -- Other mythic Buddhist figures -- Buddhist icons as living entities -- Beyond the Buddha image.

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    Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, ©2020

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    • 0824879996
    • 9780824879990

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