Miracles of Book and Body
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Author_Charlotte Eubanks
bodhisattvas
book history
buddha
buddhism
buddhist texts
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china
cult of the book
dharma
east asia
embodiment
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explanatory tales
history of the book
indian scriptures
japan
japanese didactic tales
mahayana buddhism
materiality
medieval japan
memory
miracles
nonfiction
popular religion
preaching
religion
religious texts
sacred literature
sacred texts
scroll
sermons
setsuwa
spirituality
sutra
sutra recitations
textual culture
transubstantiation
Product details
- ISBN 9780520265615
- Weight: 544g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 2011
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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."
Charlotte D. Eubanks is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature , Japanese, and Asian Studies at Pennsylvania State University.
