Buddhist manuscript cultures: knowledge, ritual, and art
| Published in: | Routledge critical studies in Buddhism |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
London [u.a.]
Routledge
2009
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| In: |
Routledge critical studies in Buddhism (52)
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| Volumes / Articles: | Show volumes/articles. |
| Edition: | 1. publ., repr. |
| Series/Journal: | Routledge critical studies in Buddhism
52 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Buddhist literature
/ Handwriting
/ History
B Tipiṭaka |
| Further subjects: | B
Tripiṭaka
Manuscripts
History
B Collection of essays B Buddhist civilization B Transmission of texts (Asia) History |
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Inhaltsverzeichnis (Verlag) |
| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index. - Introduction : rethinking Buddhist manuscript cultures / Stephen C. Berkwitz, Juliane Schober, and Claudia Brown -- Why did the Gandharan Buddhists bury their manuscripts? / Richard Salomon -- Materiality and merit in Sri Lankan Buddhist manuscripts / Stephen C. Berkwitz -- Redaction, recitation, and writing : transmission of the Buddha's teachings in India in the early period / Peter Skilling -- Diverse aspects of the Mongolian Buddhist manuscript culture and realms of its influence / Vesna A. Wallace -- From words to books : Indian Buddhist manuscripts in the first millennium CE. / Jens-Uwe Hartmann -- Between Zhongfeng Mingben and Zhao Mengfu : Chan letters in their manuscript context / Natasha Heller - Two Buddhist librarians : the proximate mechanisms for Northern Thai Buddhist history / Justin McDaniel -- Emending perfection. prescript, postscript, and practice in Newar Buddhist manuscript culture / Christoph Emmrich -- Flowers for the dhamma : painted Buddhist palm-leaf manuscript covers from Sri Lanka / Bilinda Devage Nandadeva -- From text to image : copying as Buddhist practice in late fourteenth-century Sukhothai / M.L. Pattaratorn Chirapravati |
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| ISBN: | 0415596130 |