The Face of Jizo – Image and Cult in Medieval Japanese Buddhism Glassman

The Face of Jizo\nby Hank Glassman\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Hank Glassman\nTitle: The Face of Jizo\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Buddhism\nPublisher: University of Hawaii Press\nPublication year: 2012\nISBN-13: 9780824835811\nISBN-10: 0824835816\nRRP: \u00A324.95\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\u00E2\u0153Farther on, I find other figures of Jizo, single reliefs, sculptured upon tombs. But one of these is a work of art so charming that I feel a pain at being obliged to pass it by. More sweet, assuredly, than any imaged Christ, this dream in white stone of the playfellow of dead children, like a beautiful young boy, with gracious eyelids half closed, and face made heavenly by such a smile as only Buddhist art could have imagined, the smile of infinite lovingness a.