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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Eubanks, Charlotte D. (Charlotte Diane), 1971- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2011]
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.