Tell your friends about this item:
Receptacle of the Sacred: Illustrated Manuscripts and the Buddhist Book Cult in South Asia - South Asia Across the Disciplines Jinah Kim
Receptacle of the Sacred: Illustrated Manuscripts and the Buddhist Book Cult in South Asia - South Asia Across the Disciplines
Jinah Kim
In considering medieval illustrated Buddhist manuscripts as sacred objects of cultic innovation, this book explores how and why South Asian Buddhist book-cult has survived for almost two millennia to present. It also shows how human agency was critical in perpetuating and intensifying the potency of a manuscript as a sacred object throughout time.
432 pages, black & white illustrations, figures
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | April 12, 2013 |
| ISBN13 | 9780520273863 |
| Publishers | University of California Press |
| Pages | 432 |
| Dimensions | 178 × 231 × 31 mm · 892 g |