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Author Kim, Jinah, 1976-

Title Receptacle of the sacred : illustrated manuscripts and the Buddhist book cult in South Asia / Jinah Kim.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource.
text file
Series South Asia across the disciplines
South Asia across the disciplines.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary In considering medieval illustrated Buddhist manuscripts as sacred objects of cultic innovation, Receptacle of the Sacred explores how and why the South Asian Buddhist book-cult has survived for almost two millennia to the present. A book "manuscript" should be understood as a form of sacred space: a temple in microcosm, not only imbued with divine presence but also layered with the memories of many generations of users. Jinah Kim argues that illustrating a manuscript with Buddhist imagery not only empowered it as a three-dimensional sacred object, but also made it a suitable tool for t.
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Figures in the Printed Book; List of Figures and Diagrams Online; Introduction: Text, Image, and the Book; Part One: The Book; 1 Buddhist Books and Their Cultic Use; 2 Innovations of the Medieval Buddhist Book Cult; Part Two: Text and Image; 3 Representing the Perfection of Wisdom, Embodying the Holy Sites; 4 The Visual World of Buddhist Book Illustrations; 5 Esoteric Buddhism and the Illustrated Manuscripts; Part Three: The People; 6 Social History of the Buddhist Book Cult; Epilogue: Invoking a Goddess in a Book; Notes.
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Subject Buddhist illumination of books and manuscripts -- South Asia -- History.
Buddhist illumination of books and manuscripts.
South Asia.
History.
Books -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism.
Books -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- South Asia -- History.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Buddhism -- South Asia -- Rituals -- History.
Buddhism.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Kim, Jinah, 1976- Receptacle of the sacred. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2013 9780520273863 0520273869 (DLC) 2012027299
ISBN 0520954882 (electronic book)
9780520954885 (electronic book)
9780520273863 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0520273869 (cloth ; alkaline paper)