Miracles of Book and Body : Buddhist Textual Culture and Medieval Japan
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Buddhisms
ISBN-10
0520265610
ISBN-13
9780520265615
Publisher
University of California Press
Imprint
University of California Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 1st, 2011
Print length
288 Pages
Weight
548 grams
Dimensions
22.80 x 16.00 x 2.10 cms
Product Classification:
Asian historyBuddhist sacred texts
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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? The author argues that the medieval genre of 'explanatory tales' illuminates the link between human body (devotee) and sacred text (sutra).
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