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Framing the Jina : narratives of icons and idols in Jain history / John E. Cort.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 2010. New York :Edition: 1st edDescription: xviii, 398 p. : ill., photographs ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780195385021 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 294.437 COR
LOC classification:
  • BL1375.S97 C76 2010
Contents:
Lives, frames, terms -- The archaeology of Jina images -- Icons and cosmology : a cosmos filled with eternal icons and temples -- The spread of icons in our world -- The lifetime "living Lord" icon of Mahavira : anxiety about the authenticity of icons -- Idols and a history of corruption -- The inevitability of tangible form : a natural theology of icons -- Framing the Jina.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-377) and index.

Lives, frames, terms -- The archaeology of Jina images -- Icons and cosmology : a cosmos filled with eternal icons and temples -- The spread of icons in our world -- The lifetime "living Lord" icon of Mahavira : anxiety about the authenticity of icons -- Idols and a history of corruption -- The inevitability of tangible form : a natural theology of icons -- Framing the Jina.

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