The superhuman faculties
Subtitle: visual meditation and miracles in Buddhist literature and art : a study in religious history
By: Dieter Schlingloff
Series: Buddhismus-Studien -- 9/2018; Buddhismus-Studien -- 9/2018.
Publisher: Iudicium
Published: 2018
Place of publication: München]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 145
ISBN-13: 9783862053339
Subjects: Buddhist literature; History and criticism; Buddhist art and symbolism; Miracles (Buddhism); Buddhist meditations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-145).
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: Notes on the prologue; title: The vision of the heavens in a state of trance; title: Symbols and objects of meditation; title: The Buddha's first trance; title: The faculty of levitation; title: The multiplication of the body; title: The creation of Buddha-figures; title: The emanation of figures; title: Notes; title: Literature quoted.