Framing the Jina
Subtitle: narratives of icons and idols in Jain history
By: John E. Cort.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9780195385021
Subjects: Jaina symbolism -- History; Jaina sculpture
Description: John Cort explores the narratives by which the Jains have explained the presence of icons of jinas (their enlightened and liberated teachers) that are worshiped and venerated in the hundreds of thousands of Jain temples throughout India.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Lives, frames, terms; title: The archaeology of Jina images; title: Icons and cosmology : a cosmos filled with eternal icons and temples; title: The spread of icons in our world; title: The lifetime "living Lord" icon of Mahavira : anxiety about the authenticity of icons; title: Idols and a history of corruption; title: The inevitability of tangible form : a natural theology of icons; title: Framing the Jina.