Description |
1 online resource. |
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Series |
South Asia across the disciplines
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South Asia across the disciplines.
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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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Buddhist illumination of books and manuscripts -- South Asia -- History.
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Buddhist illumination of books and manuscripts. |
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South Asia. |
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History. |
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Books -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism.
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Books -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism. |
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Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- South Asia -- History.
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Manuscripts, Sanskrit. |
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Buddhism -- South Asia -- Rituals -- History.
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Buddhism. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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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) |
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9780520954885 (electronic book) |
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9780520273863 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0520273869 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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