Princeton University 2004 Hard cover Very good in Good jacket Includes program for "A Human Approach to World Peace" From the American Himalayan Foundation. Jacket edges lightly worn. Spine slightly cocked. Inside is clean and unmarked.

ISBN10: 0691114358, ISBN13: 9780691114354, [publisher: Princeton University] Hardcover Includes program for "A Human Approach to World Peace" From the American Himalayan Foundation. Jacket edges lightly worn. Spine slightly cocked. Inside is clean and unmarked.
[Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2004]

Hardback. New. Studies the consecration of a Buddha image or "new Buddha," a ceremony by which the Buddha becomes present or alive. This book demonstrates that the image becomes the Buddha's surrogate by being invested with the Buddha's story and charged with the extraordinary power of Buddhahood. ISBN 0691114358 9780691114354 [GB]

Date: 2004. Princeton and Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2004. 16.5 cm x 24 cm. XVIII, 332 pages. 21 illustrations in black-and-white. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. The rare Hardcover - Edition ! Chapters including: Buddha and Buddha Image / Meeting the Buddha: Temple, Image and Relic / The Ritual: Opening the Eyes of the Buddha / Instructing the Image / If You Meet the Buddha, Kill Him ! / etc. 2004. ISBN 0691114358 9780691114354 [IE]

Princeton, N.J. |Oxford Princeton University Press 2004 Hard cover New in new dust jacket.

ISBN10: 0691114358, ISBN13: 9780691114354, [publisher: Princeton University Press, New Jersey] Hardcover Hardcover. Becoming the Buddha is the first book-length study of a key ritual of Buddhist practice in Asia: the consecration of a Buddha image or "new Buddha," a ceremony by which the Buddha becomes present or alive. Through a richly detailed, accessible exploration of this ritual in northern Thailand, an exploration that stands apart from standard text-based or anthropological approaches, Donald Swearer makes a major contribution to our understanding of the Buddha image, its role in Buddhist devotional life, and its relationship to the veneration of Buddha relics. Blending ethnography, analysis, and Buddhist texts related to this mimetic reenactment of the night of the Buddha's enlightenment, he demonstrates that the image becomes the Buddha's surrogate by being invested with the Buddha's story and charged with the extraordinary power of Buddhahood. The process by which this transformation occurs through chant, sermon, meditation, and the presence of charismatic monks is at the heart of this book. Known as "opening the eyes of the Buddha," image consecration traditions throughout Buddhist Asia share much in common.Within the cultural context of northern Thailand, Becoming the Buddha illuminates scriptural accounts of the making of the first Buddha image; looks at debates over the ritual's historical origin, at ...