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 |