Secrets of the Sacred: Empowering Buddhist Images in Clear, in Code, and in Cache

by Helmut Brinker

Secrets of the Sacred illuminates the role of icons and relics in Buddhist writing and practice, with particular attention to the transformation of inanimate material images into potent icons animated by the divine. The earliest canonical scriptures indicate that images of the Buddha were created before the concept of transcendental identity was developed. Later writings reveal a connectedness between image and deity, and eventually art...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295990899
• ISBN13: 9780295990897
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.2" x 10.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher