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Behold the Buddha: Religious Meanings of Japanese Buddhist Icons. By James C. Dobbins. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2020. xiv, 269 pp. ISBN: 9780824879990 (paper).

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Behold the Buddha: Religious Meanings of Japanese Buddhist Icons. By James C. Dobbins. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2020. xiv, 269 pp. ISBN: 9780824879990 (paper).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2021

Micah L. Auerback*
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University of Michigan
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Book Reviews—Northeast Asia
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2021

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References

1 Representative examples in English include Getty, Alice, The Gods of Northern Buddhism: Their History, Iconography and Progressive Evolution through the Northern Buddhist Countries (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1914)Google Scholar; Saunders, Dale E., Mudrā: A Study of Symbolic Gestures in Japanese Buddhist Sculpture (New York: Pantheon Books, 1960)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 For instance, see Mark Schumacher, A to Z Photo Dictionary: Japanese Buddhist Statuary, https://www.onmarkproductions.com/html/buddhism.shtm (accessed September 22, 2020).