Darśan: seeing the divine image in India

ch. 1. Seeing the sacred

Darśan

The visible India

Film images

The image of God

The polytheistic imagination

ch. 2. The nature of the Hindu images

The aniconic and the iconic images

Creation and consecration of images

Festivals and images

ch. 3. Image, temple, and pilgrimage

The temple and the image

Image and pilgrimage

Afterword : seeing the divine image in America

America's mūrtis and temples

Sri Lakshmi temple : the process of divine embodiment.