Visions of Power:
Imagining Medieval Japanese Buddhism
Bernard Faure
Translated from the French by Phyllis Brooks

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

	List of Illustrations
	Acknowledgments
	List of Abbreviations
	Introduction	3
Ch. 1	Autobiographical Imagination	30
Ch. 2	Imagined Lineages	47
Ch. 3	Imagining Powers	71
Ch. 4	Mythical Imaginaire	83
Ch. 5	Dreaming	114
Ch. 6	Images of Death	144
Ch. 7	Places of the Mind	179
Ch. 8	The Ritual Body	198
Ch. 9	The Power of Symbols	224
Ch. 10	Iconic Imagination	237
Ch. 11	Beyond Icons	264
	Epilogue: Imagination and Ideology	275
	Glossary	289
	Bibliography	299
	Index	323

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