Introduction; Part I: The Practice of Sraddha; 1. Seeing and Knowing; 2. Getting and Giving; Part II: The Practice of Prasada; 3. Agency and Intentionality; 4. Participation and Exclusion; 5. Proximity and Presence; 6. Politics and Aesthetics; Part III: Seeing the Buddha; 7. Past and Present; 8. Images and Imagination; Epilogue; Appendix: Contents of the Divyavadana ; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Summary
Andy Rotman offers an approach to understanding Buddhist lay and monastic practice by recognising the crucial role that visual practices played in Indian Buddhism in the early centuries of the Common Era
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-310) and index
