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Miracles of Book and Body

Buddhist Textual Culture and Medieval Japan

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011

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Miracles of Book and Body is the first book to explore the intersection of two key genres of sacred literature in medieval Japan: sutras, or sacred Buddhist texts, and setsuwa, or "explanatory tales," used in sermons and collected in written compilations. For most of East Asia, Buddhist sutras were written in classical Chinese and inaccessible to many devotees. How, then, did such devotees access these texts? Charlotte D. Eubanks argues that the medieval genre of "explanatory tales" illuminates the link between human body (devotee) and sacred text (sutra). Her highly original approach to understanding Buddhist textuality focuses on the sensual aspects of religious experience and also looks beyond Japan to explore pre-modern book history, practices of preaching, miracles of reading, and the Mahayana Buddhist "cult of the book."

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2011-01-01
Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt544 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieBuddhisms
Antal sidor288
FörlagUniversity of California Press
ISBN9780520265615

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