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Framing the Jina - Narratives of Icons and Idols in Jain History (Hardcover, New)
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Framing the Jina - Narratives of Icons and Idols in Jain History (Hardcover, New)
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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. Most of these
narratives portray icons favorably, and so justify their existence;
but there are also narratives originating among iconoclastic Jain
communities that see the existence of temple icons as a sign of
decay and corruption. The veneration of Jina icons is one of the
most widespread of all Jain ritual practices. Nearly every Jain
community in India has one or more elaborate temples, and as the
Jains become a global community there are now dozens of temples in
North America, Europe, Africa, and East Asia. The cult of temples
and icons goes back at least two thousand years, and indeed the
largest of the four main subdivisions of the Jains are called
Murtipujakas, or "Icon Worshipers." A careful reading of narratives
ranging over the past 15 centuries, says Cort, reveals a level of
anxiety and defensiveness concerning icons, although overt
criticism of the icons only became explicit in the last 500 years.
He provides detailed studies of the most important pro- and
anti-icon narratives. Some are in the form of histories of the
origins and spread of icons. Others take the form of cosmological
descriptions, depicting a vast universe filled with eternal Jain
icons. Finally, Cort looks at more psychological explanations of
the presence of icons, in which icons are defended as necessary
spiritual corollaries to the very fact of human embodiedness.
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