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Miracles of book and body : Buddhist textual culture and medieval Japan / Charlotte Eubanks.
LIBRA BQ1029.J32 E93 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eubanks, Charlotte D. (Charlotte Diane), 1971-
- Series:
- Buddhisms
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Buddhist literature, Japanese--History and criticism.
- Buddhist literature, Japanese.
- Folk literature, Japanese--History and criticism.
- Folk literature, Japanese.
- Books and reading--Religious aspects--Buddhism.
- Books and reading.
- Buddhism--Japan--History--1185-1600.
- Buddhism.
- Japan.
- History.
- Movement, Psychology of--Religious aspects--Buddhism.
- Movement, Psychology of.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2011]
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780520265615
- 0520265610
- OCLC:
- 606234953
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