Eubanks, C: Miracles of Book and Body - Buddhist Textural Cu (Buddhisms) - Hardcover

Eubanks, Charlotte

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520265610 ISBN 13: 9780520265615

Verlag: University of California Press, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Eubanks Charlotte

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Críticas

"An ambitious and largely successful project... [This book] should fruitfully provoke scholars studying any culture." -- Kevin Gray Carr, University of Michigan. Journal Of Religion "Eubanks is a terrific writer ... Articulate, well-argued, and theoretically sophisticated." -- William E. Deal Journal of the American Academy of Religion

Reseña del editor

Miracles of Book and Body is 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."

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• Verlag: University of California Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0520265610
• ISBN 13: 9780520265615
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288