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Miracles of book and body : Buddhist textual culture and medieval Japan /

" ... 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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Eubanks, Charlotte D. (Charlotte Diane), 1971- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2011]
Colección:Buddhisms ; 10.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:" ... 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"."--Provided by publisher.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xviii, 269 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780520947894
0520947894
1283277395
9781283277396
9786613277398
6613277398