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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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2011]
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Introduction: the cult of the book and the culture of text
- The ontology of sutras
- Locating setsuwa in performance
- Decomposing bodies, composing texts
- Textual transubstantiation and the place of memory
- Conclusion: on circumambulatory reading.


