These footprints became a popular symbol across the Buddhist world for his earthly presence, and continued to be made and revered after images of him became widespread.
So revered are the images and words of the leaders that a girl who drowned during the recent floods trying to save two of their portraits became a national hero.
At one end of the rink was a large photograph of the king, whose image is revered and ubiquitous in Thailand.
Darshan, ( Sanskrit: "viewing") also spelled darshana, in Indian philosophy and religion, particularly in Hinduism, the beholding of a deity (especially in image form), revered person, or sacred object.
Its history as an archival medium is ancient, and impressions of particularly important inscriptions or images are revered as art themselves.
Scheduled to bow next year at the Fowler is "Passport to Paradise: Sufi Arts of Senegal and Beyond," which will draw on popular images of the revered Islamic saint Amadou Bamba, whose cult is omnipresent in the city of Dakar and among Senegalese populations across the world, including in New York.
Beyond that, there's no universal sense among the young in China that traditional images that Tam revered as a girl in Hong Kong are what should define "Chineseness" in fashion today.
A 58-year-old career officer who was little known before Morsi appointed him to lead the armed forces in August 2012, Sisi is often portrayed by sycophantic media and the military propaganda machine with images of the revered late President Gamal Abdel Nasser.
During the visit Tuesday, Hawkins, a longtime activist, was struck by an iconic image of King, the revered civil rights leader, hanging on a wall inside the Eisenhower Executive Building next to the White House. .
The transition from revering numinous ancestor images whose identity had been forgotten to worshipping an Indianizing icon was easy for the tribal populations.
