Thus Have I Seen: Visualizing Faith in Early Indian Buddhism

by Andy Rotman

Although Buddhism is often depicted as a religion of meditators and philosophers, some of the earliest writings extant in India offer a very different portrait of the Buddhist practitioner. In Indian Buddhist narratives from the early centuries of the Common Era, most lay religious practice consists not of reading, praying, or meditating, but of visually engaging with certain kinds of objects. These visual practices, moreover, are represented as the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195366158
• ISBN13: 9780195366150
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"