04809nam 2201177Ia 450 991082617390332120230725030456.01-283-27739-597866132773980-520-94789-410.1525/9780520947894(CKB)2670000000066583(EBL)631059(OCoLC)703158770(SSID)ssj0000471380(PQKBManifestationID)11321169(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000471380(PQKBWorkID)10427706(PQKB)11207230(StDuBDS)EDZ0000084719(MiAaPQ)EBC631059(OCoLC)828182983(MdBmJHUP)muse31026(DE-B1597)520995(DE-B1597)9780520947894(Au-PeEL)EBL631059(CaPaEBR)ebr10440604(CaONFJC)MIL327739(EXLCZ)99267000000006658320100331d2011 ub 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrMiracles of book and body[electronic resource] Buddhist textual culture and medieval Japan /Charlotte EubanksBerkeley University of California Pressc20111 online resource (289 p.)Buddhisms ;10Description based upon print version of record.0-520-26561-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 --IndexMiracles 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."Buddhisms.Books and readingReligious aspectsBuddhismBuddhismJapanHistory1185-1600Buddhist literature, JapaneseHistory and criticismFolk literature, JapaneseHistory and criticismMovement, Psychology ofReligious aspectsBuddhismaffect 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 recitations.sutra.textual culture.transubstantiation.Books and readingReligious aspectsBuddhism.BuddhismHistoryBuddhist literature, JapaneseHistory and criticism.Folk literature, JapaneseHistory and criticism.Movement, Psychology ofReligious aspectsBuddhism.294.3/85Eubanks Charlotte D(Charlotte Diane),1971-1661108MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910826173903321Miracles of book and body4016834UNINA