Framing the Jina
narratives of icons and idols in Jain history
by John E. Cort
2009
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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.
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