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Miracles of Book and Body: Buddhist Textual Culture and Medieval Japan
Charlotte Eubanks
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Description for Miracles of Book and Body: Buddhist Textual Culture and Medieval Japan
Hardback. 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). Series: Buddhisms S. Num Pages: 288 pages, 7 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3H; HBJF; HRES. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 548.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
Buddhisms S.
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520265615
SKU
V9780520265615
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About Charlotte Eubanks
Charlotte D. Eubanks is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature , Japanese, and Asian Studies at Pennsylvania State University.
Reviews for Miracles of Book and Body: Buddhist Textual Culture and Medieval Japan
"An ambitious and largely successful project... [This book] should fruitfully provoke scholars studying any culture."
Kevin Gray Carr, University of Michigan. Journal Of Religion "Eubanks is a terrific writer ... Articulate, well-argued, and theoretically sophisticated."
William E. Deal Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Kevin Gray Carr, University of Michigan. Journal Of Religion "Eubanks is a terrific writer ... Articulate, well-argued, and theoretically sophisticated."
William E. Deal Journal of the American Academy of Religion