Images, miracles, and authority in Asian religious traditions / edited by Richard H. Davis.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-239).

1. Introduction: Miracles as Social Acts / Richard H. Davis -- 2. Expected Miracles: The Unsurprisingly Miraculous Nature of Buddhist Images and Relics / Robert L. Brown -- 3. The Miraculous Buddha Image: Portrait, God, or Object? / Robert L. Brown -- 4. Divine Delicacies: Monks, Images, and Miracles in the Contest between Jainism and Buddhism / Phyllis Granoff -- 5. Miraculous Abhiseka: Miracle and Authority in a South Indian Non-Brahmin Lineage / K. I. Koppedrayer -- 6. The Jina Bleeds: Threats to the Faith and the Rescue of the Faithful in Medieval Jain Stories / Phyllis Granoff -- 7. Changing Roles for Miraculous Images in Medieval Chinese Buddhism: A Study of the Miracle Image Section in Daoxuan's "Collected Records," / Koichi Shinohara -- 8. Dynastic Politics and Miraculous Images: The Example of Zhuli of the Changlesi Temple in Yangzhou / Koichi Shinohara -- 9. The Replication of Miraculous Images: The Zenkoji Amida and the Seiryoji Shaka / Donald F. McCallum.

In this edited volume, Richard Davis and his colleagues examine how religious images are understood by practitioners in Asia, how the "miracles" associated with these images are to some degree programmed by expectations and responses, and how such religious events interrelate with political and social change and conflict.

This important contribution to Asian studies and to the comparative study of religion should interest not only scholars of Asian religious texts but also students of Asian art history, architecture, and archaeology.