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Illuminates the role of icons and relics in Buddhist writing and practice

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"Brinker, a renowned specialist in East Asian Buddhism, its art, and texts, marshals a range of sources, including extraordinary eyewitness accounts. The result is to make these familiar case-studies compelling. Summing Up: Recommended."

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"Through the combination of art-historical studies with philological, archaeological and historical anthropological research, Brinker’s work gives a valuable impetus for further investigation in the field of Buddhist art of Central Asia, China and Japan and at the same time opens up new dimensions and a wider geographic and historical scope for interdisciplinary research in Buddhist studies."

-- Christian Jahoda * Social Anthropology *

Secrets of the Sacred

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      Publisher: University of Washington Press
      Publication Date: 01/07/2011
      ISBN13: 9780295990897, 978-0295990897
      ISBN10: 0295990899
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Illuminates the role of icons and relics in Buddhist writing and practice

      Trade Review

      "Brinker, a renowned specialist in East Asian Buddhism, its art, and texts, marshals a range of sources, including extraordinary eyewitness accounts. The result is to make these familiar case-studies compelling. Summing Up: Recommended."

      * Choice *

      "Through the combination of art-historical studies with philological, archaeological and historical anthropological research, Brinker’s work gives a valuable impetus for further investigation in the field of Buddhist art of Central Asia, China and Japan and at the same time opens up new dimensions and a wider geographic and historical scope for interdisciplinary research in Buddhist studies."

      -- Christian Jahoda * Social Anthropology *

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