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Receptacle of the sacred : illustrated manuscripts and the Buddhist book cult in South Asia / Jinah Kim.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: South Asia across the disciplinesPublisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2013Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 0520954882
  • 9780520954885
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Receptacle of the sacred.DDC classification:
  • 745.6/708829430954 23
LOC classification:
  • ND3246 .K56 2013
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Introduction : Text, Image, and the Book -- The Book. Buddhist Books and Their Cultic Use ; Innovations of the Medieval Buddhist Book Cult -- Text and Image. Representing the Perfection of Wisdom, Embodying the Holy Sites ; The Visual World of Buddhist Book Illustrations ; Esoteric Buddhism and the Illustrated Manuscripts -- The People. Social History of the Buddhist Book Cult -- Epilogue : Invoking a Goddess in a Book.
Summary: In considering medieval illustrated Buddhist manuscripts as sacred objects of cultic innovation, this book 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. The author 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 the spiritual transformation of practitioners

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

In considering medieval illustrated Buddhist manuscripts as sacred objects of cultic innovation, this book 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. The author 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 the spiritual transformation of practitioners

Introduction : Text, Image, and the Book -- The Book. Buddhist Books and Their Cultic Use ; Innovations of the Medieval Buddhist Book Cult -- Text and Image. Representing the Perfection of Wisdom, Embodying the Holy Sites ; The Visual World of Buddhist Book Illustrations ; Esoteric Buddhism and the Illustrated Manuscripts -- The People. Social History of the Buddhist Book Cult -- Epilogue : Invoking a Goddess in a Book.

English.