Miracles of Book and Body: Buddhist Textual Culture and Medieval Japan - Buddhisms - Charlotte Eubanks - Books - University of California Press - 9780520265615 - 2011
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Miracles of Book and Body: Buddhist Textual Culture and Medieval Japan - Buddhisms

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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? The author argues that the medieval genre of 'explanatory tales' illuminates the link between human body (devotee) and sacred text (sutra).


288 pages, 7 b/w photographs

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released 2011
ISBN13 9780520265615
Publishers University of California Press
Pages 288
Dimensions 160 × 228 × 21 mm   ·   548 g
Language English  

Mere med samme udgiver