Framing The Jina: Narratives Of Icons And Idols In Jain History

Book Summary


John Cort explores the narratives by which the Jains have explained the presence of icons of Jinas (their enlightened and liberated teachers) that are worshiped and venerated in the hundreds of thousands of Jain temples throughout India.

Book Details


Book Name Framing The Jina: Narratives Of Icons And Idols In Jain History
Author John E. Cort
Publisher Oxford University Press, Usa (Jan 2010)
ISBN 9780195385021
Pages 416
Language English
Price 3834
 
 

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