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Miracles of Book and Body: Buddhist Textual Culture and Medieval Japan - Buddhisms Charlotte Eubanks
Miracles of Book and Body: Buddhist Textual Culture and Medieval Japan - Buddhisms
Charlotte Eubanks
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 |