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Bezig met laden... Miracles of Book and Body: Buddhist Textual Culture and Medieval Japan (2011)door Charlotte Eubanks
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Charlotte Eubanks's Miracles of Book and Body embarks on a different theoretical course and, as a result, is a significant addition to existing setsuwa scholarship. In brief, she explores setsuwa as an instance of medieval Japanese Buddhist “textual culture” framed by a central question that motivates her inquiry: “how does Buddhist rhetoric, as materialized on the written page, work on human bodies?” (16). Onderdeel van de reeks(en)
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." Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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