This book contributes to the history of religions and Buddhist studies fields by focussing on what is a far too frequently ignored aspect of religious experience: visual images.

CHAPTER ONE 1 Imagining Images CHAPTER TWO Present Presence, Present Absence CHAPTER THREE Imaging and Imagining the Buddha CHAPTER FOUR The Image of Wisdom CHAPTER FIVE Representing Prajnaparamita CHAPTER SIX The Book is the Thing CHAPTER SEVEN Seeing and Knowing, References