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035			_a(DE-B1597)9780824859435
035			_a(DE-B1597)484682
035			_a(OCoLC)1013964294
040			_aDE-B1597 _beng _cDE-B1597 _erda
050		4	_aBQ1136.C6 _bL69 2017
072		7	_aREL007030 _2bisacsh
082	0	4	_a294.3/820952 _223
084			_aonline - DeGruyter
100	1		_aLowe, Bryan D. _eautore
245	1	0	_aRitualized Writing : _bBuddhist Practice and Scriptural Cultures in Ancient Japan / _cBryan D. Lowe; ed. by Robert E. Buswell.
264		1	_aHonolulu : _bUniversity of Hawaii Press, _c[2017]
264		4	_c©2017
300			_a1 online resource (352 p.) : _b11 b&w illustrations
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_atext file _bPDF _2rda
490	0		_aKuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism ; _v27
505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tContents -- _tAcknowledgments -- _tAbbreviations -- _tConventions -- _tIntroduction -- _tPart One. Ritual Practices -- _t1. Merit, Purity, and Ceremony -- _t2. Ritual Compositions -- _tPart Two. Organizations -- _t3. Writing Societies -- _t4. Instituting Transcription -- _tPart Three. Microhistories -- _t5. Disciplinary Regimes -- _t6. Haunted by Demons, Watched by Kings -- _tEpilogue -- _tAppendix: Names of the Kōmyōshi/Tōdaiji Scriptorium -- _tBibliography -- _tIndex -- _tAbout the Author
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aRitualized Writing takes readers into the fascinating world of Japanese Buddhist manuscript cultures. Using archival sources that have received scant attention in English, primarily documents from an eighth-century Japanese scriptorium and colophons from sutra manuscripts, Bryan D. Lowe uncovers the ways in which the transcription of Buddhist scripture was a highly ritualized endeavor. He takes a ground-level approach by emphasizing the activities and beliefs of a wide range of individuals, including scribes, provincial patrons, and royals, to reassess the meaning of scripture and reevaluate scholarly narratives of Japanese Buddhist history.Copying scripture is a central Buddhist practice and one that thrived in East Asia. Despite this, there are no other books dedicated to the topic. This work demonstrates that patrons and scribes treated sutras differently from other modes of writing. Scribes purified their bodies prior to transcription. Patrons held dedicatory ceremonies on days of abstinence, when prayers were pronounced and sutras were recited. Transcribing sutras helped scribes and patrons alike realize this- and other-worldly ambitions and cultivate themselves in accord with Buddhist norms. Sutra copying thus functioned as a form of ritualized writing, a strategic practice that set apart scripture as uniquely efficacious and venerable. Lowe employs this notion of ritualized writing to challenge historical narratives about ancient Japan (late seventh through early ninth centuries), a period when sutra copying flourished. He contends that Buddhist practice fulfilled a variety of social, political, and spiritual roles beyond ideological justification. Moreover, he demonstrates the inadequacy of state-folk dichotomies for understanding the social groups, institutions, and individual beliefs and practices of ancient Japanese Buddhism, highlighting instead common organizations across social class and using models that reveal shared concerns among believers from diverse social backgrounds.Ritualized Writing makes broader contributions to the study of ritual and scripture by introducing the notion of scriptural cultures, an analytic tool that denotes a series of dynamic relationships and practices involving texts that have been strategically set apart or ritualized. Scripture, Lowe concludes, is at once a category created by humans and a body of texts that transforms individuals and social organizations who come into contact with it.
530			_aIssued also in print.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)
650		0	_aBuddhism _zJapan _xHistory _yTo 794.
650		0	_aCalligraphy, Japanese _xHistory.
650		0	_aTransmission of texts _zJapan _xHistory.
650		7	_aRELIGION / Buddhism / Sacred Writings. _2bisacsh
700	1		_aBuswell, Robert E. _ecuratore
850			_aIT-RoAPU
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9780824859435
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780824859435
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