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Miracles of Book and Body: Buddhist Textual Culture and Medieval Japan |
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Eubanks, Charlotte (著)
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| Date | 2011.01.01 |
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| Pages | 288 |
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| Publisher | Berkeley: University of California Press |
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| Location | Berkeley, CA, US [伯克利, 加利福尼亞州, 美國] |
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| Content type | 書籍=Book |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Keyword | medieval Japan; Mahāyāna; reading; human body; classical Chinese; explanatory tales; setsuwa; sacred Buddhist texts; preaching; sutras |
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| Abstract | This book explores 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? The book argues that the medieval genre of “explanatory tales” illuminates the link between human body (devotee) and sacred text (sutra). The author's 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 Mahāyāna Buddhist “cult of the book.” |
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| Table of contents | Front Matter
Copyright Page
Dedication
Illustrations
Note on Sutras
Note on Setsuwa
Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Cult of the Book and the Culture of Text
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One The Ontology of Sutras
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Two Locating Setsuwa in Performance
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Three Decomposing Bodies, Composing Texts
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Four Textual Transubstantiation and the Place of Memory
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Conclusion: On Circumambulatory Reading
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End Matter
Notes
Glossary
Works Cited
Index |
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| ISBN | 9780520265615 (pbk); 0520265610 (pbk) |
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| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520265615.001.0001 |
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| Related reviews | - Book Review: Miracles of Book and Body: Buddhist Textual Culture and Medieval Japan by Charlotte Eubanks / Deal, William E. (評論)
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| Created date | 2011.02.17 |
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| Modified date | 2023.08.10 |
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