TY  - BOOK
AU  - Eubanks,Charlotte D.
TI  - Miracles of book and body: Buddhist textual culture and medieval Japan 
T2  - Buddhisms
SN  - 9780520947894
AV  - BQ1029.J32 E93 2011eb
U1  - 294.3/85 22
PY  - 2011///]
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Buddhist literature, Japanese
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Folk literature, Japanese
KW  - Books and reading
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Buddhism
KW  - Japan
KW  - History
KW  - 1185-1600
KW  - Movement, Psychology of
KW  - Livres et lecture
KW  - Aspect religieux
KW  - Bouddhisme
KW  - Japon
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Littérature bouddhique japonaise
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Psychomotricité
KW  - Littérature populaire japonaise
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: the cult of the book and the culture of text -- The ontology of sutras -- Locating setsuwa in performance -- Decomposing bodies, composing texts -- Textual transubstantiation and the place of memory -- Conclusion: on circumambulatory reading
N2  - " ... 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"."--Provided by publisher
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