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How can we explain the diversity of Indic Buddhism, its many different images of worship and its (apparently) dramatic alterations in doctrine? This book demonstrates that they reflect the tensions between the meanings of Buddhaâs absence and presence and the wide variety of combinatory resolutions of those tensions which were brought into being. The meanings of absence and presence were encoded in separate systems of meaningâsignified, respectively, in words and in images. Albeit antithetical, these meanings operated in a complementary manner. However, the nature of that complementarity altered during the course of three different phases of the religionâs history.
Keith Clark, Ph.D. (2025) and MA (2019) in Buddhist Studies at SOAS, London University. Previously: Senior Partner at Clifford Chance (1993â2002); International General Counsel at Morgan Stanley (2002- 2009). Trusteeships: Sadlerâs Wells; Pallant House Gallery; Royal Society of Sculptors; Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra; and Arc Dance Company.
Academic institutes, libraries, specialists in Buddhism and art history, students of Buddhism at all levels. Subject areas covered include Buddhism, art history, comparative religions, and semiology.ââ