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Framing the Jina narratives of icons and idols in Jain history

Title: Framing the Jina [electronic resource] : narratives of icons and idols in Jain history / John E. Cort.
Author: Cort, John E., 1953-
Publication: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

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1 online resource (xviii, 398 p.) : ill., photographs.

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Framing the Jina (Online)

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Framing the Jina (Online)

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-377) and index.

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Contents

Lives, frames, terms -- The archaeology of Jina images -- Icons and cosmology : a cosmos filled with eternal icons and temples -- The spread of icons in our world -- The lifetime "living Lord" icon of Mahavira : anxiety about the authenticity of icons -- Idols and a history of corruption -- The inevitability of tangible form : a natural theology of icons -- Framing the Jina.

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