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Secrets of the Sacred: Empowering Buddhist Images in Clear, in Code, and in Cache

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Secrets of the Sacred: Empowering Buddhist Images in Clear, in Code, and in Cache - Brinker, Helmut
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Secrets of the Sacred illuminates the role of icons and relics in Buddhist writing and practice, with particular attention to the transformation of inanimate material images into potent icons animated by the divine. The earliest canonical scriptures indicate that images of the Buddha were created before the concept of transcendental identity was developed. Later writings reveal a connectedness between image and deity, and eventually art transformed into a means of creating a receptive environment for communication with the ...

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Secrets of the Sacred: Empowering Buddhist Images in Clear, in Code, and in Cache 2011, University of Washington Press, Seattle

ISBN-13: 9780295990897

Hardcover