# Publications Search Within Results Search Within Results search ## 28 results Show filters filter\_alt Sort by Year of PublicationAlphabetical A-Z sort ## 28 results Download 28 citations download- [BibTeX](/node/835261/export?format=bibtex) - [EndNote X3 XML](/node/835261/export?format=endnote8) - [EndNote 7 XML](/node/835261/export?format=endnote7) - [Endnote tagged](/node/835261/export?format=tagged) - [Marc](/node/835261/export?format=marc) - [PubMedId](/node/835261/export?format=pubmed_id) - [RIS](/node/835261/export?format=ris) ### 2025 Kim, Jinah. “[An Ambitious Itinerary: Journey Across the Medieval Buddhist World in a Book, CUL Add.1643 (1015 CE)](https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16070900).” *Religions* 16.7 (2025): n. pag. Kim, Jinah. “[An Ambitious Itinerary: Journey Across the Medieval Buddhist World in a Book, CUL Add.1643 (1015 CE)](https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16070900).” *Religions* 16.7 (2025): n. pag. - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract - [An Ambitious Itinerary](https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16070900) A Sanskrit manuscript of the *Prajñāpāramitā* or Perfection of Wisdom in eight thousand verses, now in the Cambridge University Library, Add.1643, is one of the most ambitiously designed South Asian manuscripts from the eleventh century, with the highest... - [An Ambitious Itinerary](https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16070900) Kim, Jinah. “[On Magic Letters and Magic Books: Mantras and Dhāraṇīs of Medieval Indic Buddhism and the Buddhist Book Cult](https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/737603).” *West 86th: A journal of decorative arts, design history, and material culture* 32 (2025): n. pag. Print. Kim, Jinah. “[On Magic Letters and Magic Books: Mantras and Dhāraṇīs of Medieval Indic Buddhism and the Buddhist Book Cult](https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/737603).” *West 86th: A journal of decorative arts, design history, and material culture* 32 (2025): n. pag. Print. - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract - [On Magic Letters and Magic Books](https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/737603) This article examines mantras and *dhāraṇīs* in medieval Indic Buddhism as potent textual forms believed to effect immediate change through their deployment—a function I analyze through the heuristic lens of “magic.” I demonstrate how these magic letters... - [On Magic Letters and Magic Books](https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/737603) ### 2023 Kim, Jinah. “[Water Stories: Cultivating Climate Empathy Through Art](/publications/water-stories-cultivating-climate-empathy-through-art).” *Water Stories: River Goddesses, Ancestral Rites, and Climate Crisis*. N.p., 2023. Print. Kim, Jinah. “[Water Stories: Cultivating Climate Empathy Through Art](/publications/water-stories-cultivating-climate-empathy-through-art).” *Water Stories: River Goddesses, Ancestral Rites, and Climate Crisis*. N.p., 2023. Print. - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://waterstories.fas.harvard.edu/essays/water-stories-cultivating-climate-empathy-through-art/) - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://waterstories.fas.harvard.edu/essays/water-stories-cultivating-climate-empathy-through-art/) Kim, Jinah, and Todd Lewis. “[Around the Tree of Awakening](/publications/around-tree-awakening).” *The Buddha: A Storied Life*. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Print. Kim, Jinah, and Todd Lewis. “[Around the Tree of Awakening](/publications/around-tree-awakening).” *The Buddha: A Storied Life*. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Print. ### 2022 Kim, Jinah. “[‘Goddess Prajñāpāramitā and Esoteric Buddhism in Jayavarman VII’s Angkor’](https://bookshop.iseas.edu.sg/publication/7802).” *Creative South: Buddhist and Hindu Art in Mediaeval Maritime Asia* . Ed. Andrea Acri and Peter Sharrock. Vol. 1. Singapore: ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute, 2022. 167–191. Print. Kim, Jinah. “[‘Goddess Prajñāpāramitā and Esoteric Buddhism in Jayavarman VII’s Angkor’](https://bookshop.iseas.edu.sg/publication/7802).” *Creative South: Buddhist and Hindu Art in Mediaeval Maritime Asia* . Ed. Andrea Acri and Peter Sharrock. Vol. 1. Singapore: ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute, 2022. 167–191. Print. ### 2021 Kim, Jinah. *[Garland of Visions: Color, Tantra, and a Material History of Indian Painting](/publications/garland-visions-color-tantra-and-material-history-indian-painting)*. Oakland : University of California Press, 2021. Print. Kim, Jinah. *[Garland of Visions: Color, Tantra, and a Material History of Indian Painting](/publications/garland-visions-color-tantra-and-material-history-indian-painting)*. Oakland : University of California Press, 2021. Print. Kim, Jinah. “[China in Medieval Indian Imagination: ‘China’-Inspired Images in Medieval South Asia](https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-asian-studies/article/abs/china-in-medieval-indian-imagination-chinainspired-images-in-medieval-south-asia/9305AB94D7AD38338FBC9C98114AEFD8).” *International Journal of Asian Studies* (2021): 1–28. Print. Kim, Jinah. “[China in Medieval Indian Imagination: ‘China’-Inspired Images in Medieval South Asia](https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-asian-studies/article/abs/china-in-medieval-indian-imagination-chinainspired-images-in-medieval-south-asia/9305AB94D7AD38338FBC9C98114AEFD8).” *International Journal of Asian Studies* (2021): 1–28. Print. - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://doi.org/10.1017/S1479591421000176) Cross-cultural exchanges between India and China during the first millennium are often understood through a Buddhist lens; by investigating the impact of Indian Buddhist sources, be they literary, doctrinal, or artistic, to receiving Chinese communities... - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://doi.org/10.1017/S1479591421000176) Kim, Jinah. “[Lost Books in People’s Hands: Looking for Illustrated Buddhist Manuscripts of Odisha in Stone](/publications/%E2%80%9Clost-books-people%E2%80%99s-hands-looking-illustrated-buddhist-manuscripts-odisha-stone%E2%80%9D).” *Journal of Bengal Art* 26 (2021): 491–516. Print. Kim, Jinah. “[Lost Books in People’s Hands: Looking for Illustrated Buddhist Manuscripts of Odisha in Stone](/publications/%E2%80%9Clost-books-people%E2%80%99s-hands-looking-illustrated-buddhist-manuscripts-odisha-stone%E2%80%9D).” *Journal of Bengal Art* 26 (2021): 491–516. Print. - [ picture\_as\_pdf31\_jinah\_kim\_lost\_books\_i...](/sites/g/files/omnuum11191/files/31_jinah_kim_lost_books_in_people_hands_compressed.pdf) - [ picture\_as\_pdf31\_jinah\_kim\_lost\_books\_i...](/sites/g/files/omnuum11191/files/31_jinah_kim_lost_books_in_people_hands_compressed.pdf) ### 2020 Kim, Jinah. “[Women in in Action: Images of Women in the Buddhist Art of Medieval Eastern India and Nepal](/publications/women-action-images-women-buddhist-art-medieval-eastern-india-and-nepal).” *Orientations* 2020: n. pag. Print. Kim, Jinah. “[Women in in Action: Images of Women in the Buddhist Art of Medieval Eastern India and Nepal](/publications/women-action-images-women-buddhist-art-medieval-eastern-india-and-nepal).” *Orientations* 2020: n. pag. Print. - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://www.orientations.com.hk/past-issues/p/novdec-2020) - [ picture\_as\_pdfjkim\_images\_of\_women\_orie...](/sites/g/files/omnuum11191/files/jkim/files/jkim_images_of_women_orientations_2020_compressed.pdf) - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://www.orientations.com.hk/past-issues/p/novdec-2020) - [ picture\_as\_pdfjkim\_images\_of\_women\_orie...](/sites/g/files/omnuum11191/files/jkim/files/jkim_images_of_women_orientations_2020_compressed.pdf) Kim, Jinah. “[‘Reading Time: The Sarnath Buddha and the Historical Significance of Donor Portraits in Early Medieval South Asia’](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02666030.2020.1821517).” *South Asian Studies* (2020): 1–26. Print. Kim, Jinah. “[‘Reading Time: The Sarnath Buddha and the Historical Significance of Donor Portraits in Early Medieval South Asia’](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02666030.2020.1821517).” *South Asian Studies* (2020): 1–26. Print. - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02666030.2020.1821517) How was time conceptualized and represented in Indian art? Through case studies re-examining a few canonical examples in Indian art, from Sarnath Buddha, to Udayagiri Varāha tableau, to Ajanta's Cave 26, this essay demonstrates that the carefully... - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02666030.2020.1821517) ### 2019 Kim, Jinah, and Todd Lewis, eds. *[Dharma and Puṇya: Buddhist Ritual Art of Nepal](/publications/dharma-and-pu%E1%B9%87ya-buddhist-ritual-art-nepal)*. Leiden: Hotei Publishing, 2019. Print. Kim, Jinah, and Todd Lewis, eds. *[Dharma and Puṇya: Buddhist Ritual Art of Nepal](/publications/dharma-and-pu%E1%B9%87ya-buddhist-ritual-art-nepal)*. Leiden: Hotei Publishing, 2019. Print. - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract *Dharma and Puṇya: Buddhist Ritual Art of Nepal* explores the centrality of ritual practices and the agency of people – patrons, ritual specialists, devotees – in creating and amplifying the efficacy of Buddhist art. Jinah Kim and Todd Lewis highlight the... ### 2018 Kim, Jinah. “[Brahmanical-Buddhist Sculptures: Looking for ‘Bengal’ness](/publications/brahmanical-and-buddhist-sculptures-bengal-looking-bengalness).” *History of Bangladesh: Early Bengal in Regional Perspectives (up to C. 1200CE)* . Ed. Abdul Momin Chowdhury and Ranabir Chakravarti. Vol. 2. Dhaka: Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, 2018. 391–432. Print. Kim, Jinah. “[Brahmanical-Buddhist Sculptures: Looking for ‘Bengal’ness](/publications/brahmanical-and-buddhist-sculptures-bengal-looking-bengalness).” *History of Bangladesh: Early Bengal in Regional Perspectives (up to C. 1200CE)* . Ed. Abdul Momin Chowdhury and Ranabir Chakravarti. Vol. 2. Dhaka: Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, 2018. 391–432. Print. - [ picture\_as\_pdfj\_kim\_2018\_chap\_12\_brahma...](/sites/g/files/omnuum11191/files/jkim/files/j_kim_2018_chap_12_brahmanicalbuddhist_sculptures.pdf) - [ picture\_as\_pdfj\_kim\_2018\_chap\_12\_brahma...](/sites/g/files/omnuum11191/files/jkim/files/j_kim_2018_chap_12_brahmanicalbuddhist_sculptures.pdf) - Previous page chevron\_left - [1](?page=0 "Current page") - [2](?page=1 "Go to page 2") - [3](?page=2 "Go to page 3") - [ Next page chevron\_right ](?page=1 "Go to next page")