The Iconostasis and Darśan in Orthodox Christianity and Mahāyāna Buddhism

This essay discusses how Orthodox Christianity and Mahāyāna Buddhism understood the acts of both seeing and being seen by the divine, and how such ideas affected the making and use of icons in these two religious traditions. I focus on the visual culture of the Byzantine and Russian Orthodox churche...

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Main Author: Shin, Junhyoung (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill [2020]
In: Religion and the arts
Year: 2020, Volume: 24, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 38-64
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Orthodox Church / Iconostasis / Darshan / Mahayana / God / Gaze
RelBib Classification:AG Religious life; material religion
BL Buddhism
CE Christian art
KDF Orthodox Church
Further subjects:B Gaze
B Jacques Lacan
B Pure Land Buddhism
B Orthodox Christianity
B Darśan
B Esoteric Buddhism
B Gregory Palamas
B Iconostasis
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