Perennial Encounters: Does Technology Shape the Mind?=The Simile of the Painter, the Irruption of Representation, and the Disclosure of Buddhism in Early and Classical India
I. Encounter with the present: the perceptibility of interllectual practice and related questions 2 II. Words, images, and the artificial 6 III. Poetics, aesthetics, and the Silpin's Skilful Means: society, culture and the opening of 'some' Buddhist circles in the first centries CE 30 IV. The smile of the painter: visual distraction and visual attraction 39 Bibliography 45
