Image and Text in Newar Buddhist Ritual Manuals

This article addresses the relationships between text and image in a group of Newar Buddhist manuscripts from Nepal. While these manuscripts all describe essentially the same ritual, a version of the ubiquitous Vajradhātu maṇḍala, they do so in widely varying ways, serving more as practitioners'...

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Main Author: Huntington, Eric (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Taylor & Francis [2017]
In: Material religion
Year: 2017, Volume: 13, Issue: 2, Pages: 175-205
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Newar / Buddhism / Ritual book / Text / Image
RelBib Classification:AG Religious life; material religion
BL Buddhism
KBM Asia
Further subjects:B Buddhism
B Manuscript
B Illustration
B Vajradhātu maṇḍala
B Ritual
B Newar
B mudrā
B Nepal
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)