With a single glance
Subtitle: Buddhist icons and early Mikkyō vision
By: Cynthea J. Bogel.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Seattle
Language: eng
Number of pages: 476
ISBN-13: 9780295989204
Subjects: Art, Tantric-Buddhist -- Japan
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction; title: Pt. 1. Definitions and dynamics. Ch. 1. Esoteric Buddhism and Mikkyō; title: Ch. 2. A religion of images; title: Ch. 3. The function of icons and visuality as function; title: Pt. 2. Mikkyō visual culture and its sources. Ch. 4. Kūkai and China : inheriting Mikkyō visual culture; title: Ch. 5. Kūkai and Japan : transmitting Mikkyō visual culture; title: Pt. 3. Visions and cosmologies. Ch. 6. Sight and syncretism; title: Ch. 7. What they saw : the image looks back; title: Pt. 4. Vision, ritual, and imagery. Ch. 8. Contemplations and contemplative imagery; title: Ch. 9. Mikkyō ritual and imagery within ritual; title: Pt. 5. Choreographies of ritual space. Ch. 10. Mikkyō topographies and palaces; title: Ch. 11. The Tōji Karma mandala; title: Glossary of Japanese characters; title: Notes; title: Selected bibliography.