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Editor's Note

Acknowledgments

About the Contributors

1 Introduction: Miracles as Social Acts

Richard H. Davis

2 Expected Miracles: The Unsurprisingly Miraculous Nature of Buddhist Images and Relics

Robert L. Brown

3 The Miraculous Buddha Image: Portrait, God, or Object?

Robert L. Brown

4 Divine Delicacies: Monks, Images, and Miracles in the Contest between Jainism and Buddhism

Phyllis Granoff

5 Miraculous Abhiseka: Miracle and Authority in a South Indian Non-Brahmin Lineage

K.I. Koppedrayer

6 The Jina Bleeds: Threats to the Faith and the Rescue of the Faithful in Medieval Jain Stories

Phyllis Granoff

7 Changing Roles for Miraculous Images in Medieval Chinese Buddhism: A Study of the Miracle Image Section in Daoxuan's "Collected Records"

Koichi Shinohara

8 Dynastic Politics and Miraculous Images: The Example of Zhuli of the Changlesi Temple in Yangzhou

Koichi Shinohara

9 The Replication of Miraculous Images: The Zenkoji Amida and the Seiryoji Shaka

Donald F. McCallum

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