Miracles of Book and Body (eBook)

Buddhist Textual Culture and Medieval Japan

Charlotte Eubanks (Autor)

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2011
288 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-94789-4 (ISBN)

Infos

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 "e;explanatory tales,"e; 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 "e;explanatory tales"e; 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 "e;cult of the book."e;

Inhalt

List of Illustrations
Note on Sutras
Note on Setsuwa
List of 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

Glossary
Works Cited
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.1.2011
• Reihe/Serie: Buddhisms
• Reihe/Serie: Buddhisms
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
• Schlagworte: affect theory • Amida • Bodhisattvas • Book History • Buddha • Buddhism • buddhist texts • China • Cult of the book • Dharma • East Asia • Embodiment • explanatory tales • history of the book • indian scriptures • Japan • japanese didactic tales • mahayana buddhism • Materiality • medieval japan • Memory • miracles • Nonfiction • Popular Religion • Preaching • Religion • religious texts • sacred literature • Sacred Texts • scroll • Sermons • setsuwa • Spirituality • Sutra • sutra recitations • Textual culture • transubstantiation
• ISBN-10: 0-520-94789-4 / 0520947894
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-94789-4 / 9780520947894