Miracles of book and body [[electronic resource] ] : Buddhist textual culture and medieval Japan / / Charlotte Eubanks

• Autore: Eubanks Charlotte D (Charlotte Diane), <1971->
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (289 p.)
• Disciplina: 294.3/85
• Soggetto topico: Books and reading - Religious aspects - Buddhism; Buddhism - Japan - History - 1185-1600; Buddhist literature, Japanese - History and criticism; Folk literature, Japanese - History and criticism; Movement, Psychology of - Religious aspects - Buddhism
• Soggetto non controllato: 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 recitations; sutra; textual culture; transubstantiation
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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."
• Titolo autorizzato: Miracles of book and body
• ISBN: 1-283-27739-5; 9786613277398; 0-520-94789-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910785423103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Buddhisms.