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Lives of Indian Images
Lives of Indian Images
Author: Richard H. Davis
For many centuries, Hindus have taken it for granted that the religious images they place in temples and home shrines for purposes of worship are alive. Hindu priests bring them to life through a complex ritual "establishment" that invokes the god or goddess into material support. Priests and devotees then maintain the enlivened image as a divin...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780691005201
ISBN-10: 0691005206
Publication Date: 4/12/1999
Pages: 350
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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