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Book: Iconic Books and Texts

Chapter: 8. It Is What It Is (Or Is It?): Further Reflections on the Buddhist Representation of Manuscripts

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.21412

Blurb:

This chapter suggests that Buddhist images of books are like sculptural snapshots. These are not images not to be worshipped—although the main goddesses or bodhisattvas presented in the images were certainly objects of veneration— but they are images of worship.

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