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Miracles of book and body : Buddhist textual culture and medieval Japan / Charlotte Eubanks.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eubanks, Charlotte D. (Charlotte Diane), 1971-
- Series:
- Buddhisms.
- Buddhisms ; 10
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Books and reading--Religious aspects--Buddhism.
- Books and reading.
- Buddhism--Japan--History--1185-1600.
- Buddhism.
- Buddhist literature, Japanese--History and criticism.
- Buddhist literature, Japanese.
- Folk literature, Japanese--History and criticism.
- Folk literature, Japanese.
- Movement, Psychology of--Religious aspects--Buddhism.
- Movement, Psychology of.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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."
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Note on Sutras
- Note on Setsuwa
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Cult of the Book and the Culture of Text
- 1. The Ontology of Sutras
- 2. Locating Setsuwa in Performance
- 3. Decomposing Bodies, Composing Texts
- 4. Textual Transubstantiation and the Place of Memory
- Conclusion. On Circumambulatory Reading
- Notes
- Glossary
- Works Cited
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613277398
- 9781283277396
- 1283277395
- 9780520947894
- 0520947894
- OCLC:
- 703158770
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