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Receptacle of the sacred : illustrated manuscripts and the Buddhist book cult in South Asia / Jinah Kim.
LIBRA ND3246 .K56 2013
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kim, Jinah, 1976-
- Series:
- South Asia across the disciplines
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Buddhist illumination of books and manuscripts--South Asia--History.
- Buddhist illumination of books and manuscripts.
- Books--Religious aspects--Buddhism.
- Books.
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit--South Asia--History.
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Buddhism--South Asia--Rituals--History.
- Buddhism.
- History.
- South Asia.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 377 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [2013]
- Contents:
- Part 1 The Book
- 1 Buddhist Books and Their Cultic Use 23
- 2 Innovations of the Medieval Buddhist Book Cult 43
- Part 2 Text and Image
- 3 Representing the Perfection of Wisdom, Embodying the Holy Sites 73
- 4 The Visual World of Buddhist Book Illustrations 113
- 5 Esoteric Buddhism and the Illustrated Manuscripts 149
- Part 3 The People
- 6 Social History of the Buddhist Book Cult 213.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780520273863
- 0520273869
- OCLC:
- 799025095
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