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Receptacle of the Sacred : Illustrated Manuscripts and the Buddhist Book Cult in South Asia /
In considering medieval illustrated Buddhist manuscripts as sacred objects of cultic innovation, this book explores how and why the South Asian Buddhist book-cult has survived for almost two millennia to the present. A book "manuscript" should be understood as a form of sacred space: a tem...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2013
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Kim, Jinah, |d 1976- | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Receptacle of the Sacred : |b Illustrated Manuscripts and the Buddhist Book Cult in South Asia / |c Jinah Kim. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction : Text, Image, and the Book -- The Book. Buddhist Books and Their Cultic Use ; Innovations of the Medieval Buddhist Book Cult -- Text and Image. Representing the Perfection of Wisdom, Embodying the Holy Sites ; The Visual World of Buddhist Book Illustrations ; Esoteric Buddhism and the Illustrated Manuscripts -- The People. Social History of the Buddhist Book Cult -- Epilogue : Invoking a Goddess in a Book. | |
| 520 | |a In considering medieval illustrated Buddhist manuscripts as sacred objects of cultic innovation, this book explores how and why the South Asian Buddhist book-cult has survived for almost two millennia to the present. A book "manuscript" should be understood as a form of sacred space: a temple in microcosm, not only imbued with divine presence but also layered with the memories of many generations of users. The author argues that illustrating a manuscript with Buddhist imagery not only empowered it as a three-dimensional sacred object, but also made it a suitable tool for the spiritual transformation of practitioners | ||
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| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
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| 650 | 7 | |a Buddhist illumination of books and manuscripts |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01727606 | |
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