Buddha of Two Faces: Presence and Absence in Indic Buddhism (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004766396)

Vendor: Keith Clark
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Format: Hardcover
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Buddha of Two Faces: Presence and Absence in Indic Buddhism

$179.00

Buddha of Two Faces: Presence and Absence in Indic Buddhism

$179.00
Format: Hardcover
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How can we explain the diversity of Indic Buddhism, its many different images of worship and its (apparently) dramatic alterations in doctrine? This book demonstrates that they reflect the tensions between the meanings of Buddha's absence and presence and the wide variety of combinatory resolutions of those tensions which were brought into being. The meanings of absence and presence were encoded in separate systems of meaning--signified, respectively, in words and in images. Albeit antithetical, these meanings operated in a complementary manner. However, the nature of that complementarity altered during the course of three different phases of the religion's history.

Author: Keith Clark
ISBN-10: 9004766391
ISBN-13: 9789004766396
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 09/09/2026
Pages: 354
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.53lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.10w x 0.88d
By Keith Clark
By Keith Clark
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Keith Clark, Ph.D. (2025) and MA (2019) in Buddhist Studies at SOAS, London University. Previously: Senior Partner at Clifford Chance (1993-2002); International General Counsel at Morgan Stanley (2002- 2009). Trusteeships: Sadler's Wells; Pallant House Gallery; Royal Society of Sculptors; Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra; and Arc Dance Company.

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