Sentence examples for consecrated image from inspiring English sources

A consecrated image in a temple, or on a home altar, doesn't just depict a god; when you engage with it, it is the god, listening to you, looking at you, ready to serve and ready to be served.

For many Indians, a consecrated image is a container of concentrated divine energy, and Hindu theists maintain that it is a form taken by the deity to make himself accessible to the devotee.

The owner of the temple (i.e., the individual or community that paid for its construction)—also called the sacrificer participates in the process of reintegration and experiences his spiritual rebirth in the small cella, aptly called the "womb room" (garbhagriha), by meditating on the God's presence, symbolized or actualized in his consecrated image.

After looking at his own lifelike image, believed at the time to have been his only true-likeness, Buddha was pleased and "imbued the image with his spiritual essence", or "enlivened and consecrated" the image, naming it "Candasara".

This image is of a nation largely united in relief at the Brothers' abrupt exit, proud of its army and police, and scornful of the malingering few, including foreign journalists, who question the wisdom of Egypt's chosen path.The presidential elections set to unfold on May 26th and 27th look sure to consecrate this image.

Historian Juliane Schober has very succinctly explained this legend and the cult worship that has evolved around the "living" double image of Mahamuni Buddha: Another legend narrated in the Arakanese chronicle relates to the nine phenomena that occurred when the image was consecrated in the temple and continued to occur after the Buddha had departed.

The Aztecs twice yearly made dough images of the sun god Huitzilopochtli that were consecrated to the god and thereby transubstantiated into his flesh to be eaten with fear and reverence by the worshippers.

An image, form, or representation, usually of a man or other animal, consecrated as an object of worship; a deity.

Before the finished icon is used, it likewise is consecrated.

Most Hindu images are constructed by artisans following strict guidelines and are consecrated in a ceremony.

Consecrated in 1191 by Jayavarman VII, one of the most prolific Khmer builder-kings, Preah Khan served as a monastery and teaching complex, its walls carved with both Buddhist and Hindu images.