E-toki Buddhist Picture Telling
E-toki (picture deciphering, or picture explaining) refers to a Japanese Buddhist practice of using an emaki (hand picture, a painted hand scroll) or picture halls (rooms with pictures either painted onto the walls, or containing a series of hanging scrolls) to explain a Buddhist principal.
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Famous quotes containing the words picture and/or telling:
“If you think of learning as a path, you can picture yourself walking beside her rather than either pushing or dragging or carrying her along.”
—Polly Berrien Berends (20th century)
“Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)