Miracles of Book and Body: Buddhist Textual Culture and Medieval Japan: 10 - Rilegato

Eubanks, Charlotte

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ISBN 10: 0520265610 ISBN 13: 9780520265615

Casa editrice: Univ of California Pr, 2011

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, andsetsuwa, 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.”

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Charlotte Eubanks is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Japanese, and Asian Studies at The Pennsylvania State University.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

"This is an exciting exploration of the world of Buddhist attitudes towards religious texts, from Indian scriptures to Japanese medieval tales. Its emphasis on discursive strategieshow Buddhist texts function and what they expect of their readers/users (especially, the connection between books, their content, and their readers' bodies)is a welcome new perspective."Fabio Rambelli, author ofBuddhist Materiality

"Miracles of Book and Body is fluidly written and engaging. This book brings the reader to an awareness of the range and foci of medieval 'popular' readings of sutra literature, and Eubanks provides an important perspective to interpreting these narratives that is original and stimulating."Thomas W. Hare, author of Zeami: Performance Notes

"Charlotte Eubanks' sophisticated, insightful and readable study of the physicalities of sutra texts and sutra recitation makes sense of some of the strangest phenomena in medieval Japan. By disentangling the literal and metaphorical meanings in Buddhist setsuwa, Eubanks explains such things as how memorizing a text is an embodiment thereof, how texts can become sentient beings, and why the scroll is an appropriate format for recording dharma. Her work is both important and engaging."Margaret H. Childs, University of Kansas

"Drawing on an impressive range of Mahayana scriptures and medieval Japanese didactic tales, Eubanks unpacks recurrent tropes correlating text and flesh to reveal surprising connections among the literary, material, and ritual dimensions of Buddhist textual culture. Elegantly written and theoretically astute, this volume will be welcomed not only by specialists in Buddhist literature but also by readers interested in broader issues of text-based religious practice."Jacqueline Stone, author ofOriginal Enlightenment and the Transformation of Medieval Japanese Buddhism

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of California Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0520265610
• ISBN 13: 9780520265615
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 269