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Absent LordLawrence A. Babb

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Absent Lord

Ascetics and Kings in a Jain Ritual Culture

by Lawrence A. Babb

An anthropological study of image worship among Shvetambara Jains in Jaipur. Babb explores how Jains worship Tirthankaras who, being liberated, cannot respond, and what this reveals about Jain ritual culture.

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