Visualizing Devotion: Jain Embroidered Shrine Hangings (Paperback or Softback)

Puliady, Syona

ISBN 10: 0998044571 / ISBN 13: 9780998044576

Editore: Fowler Museum at UCLA 12/16/2025, 2025

Visualizing Devotion: Jain Embroidered Shrine Hangings. Codice articolo BBS-9780998044576

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This beautifully illustrated volume highlights Jain devotional textiles (choḍs) from the Ronald and Maxine Linde Collection at UCLA's Fowler Museum. Fashioned in the Indian states of Gujarat, Rajasthan, and Maharashtra, these works of velvet and sateen cloth, lavishly embroidered with gold and silver gilt thread, depict Jain mythology, influential spiritual teachers, sacred sites, and ritual traditions. Visualizing Devotion delves into the innovative material approaches taken by the creators of choḍs, the captivating religious stories they convey, and the social lives of these objects in Jain communities. They offer a mode of devotional patronage to lay people, who frequently commission them as gifts for places of worship in recognition of deceased relatives or upon completion of important rituals, such as monastic initiation or a lengthy fast.

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Titolo: Visualizing Devotion: Jain Embroidered ...
Casa editrice: Fowler Museum at UCLA 12/16/2025
Data di pubblicazione: 2025
Legatura: Paperback or Softback
Condizione: New
Tipologia articolo: Book