Buddhist Manuscript Cultures
Knowledge, Ritual, and Art
Buddhist Manuscript Cultures explores how religious and cultural practices in premodern Asia were shaped by literary and artistic traditions as well as by Buddhist material culture. This study of Buddhist texts focuses on the significance of their material forms rather than their doctrinal contents, and examines how and why they were made.Collectively, the book offers cross-cultural and comparative insights into the transmission of Buddhist knowledge and the use of texts and images as ritual objects in the artistic and aesthetic traditions of Buddhist cultures. Drawing on case studies from India, Gandhara, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Mongolia, China…
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Weitere Autoren: Schober, Juliane (Hrsg.) / Brown, Claudia (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-134-00242-9
- EAN: 9781134002429
- Produktnummer: 18398716
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 12'284 KB
- Abbildungen: 28 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 27 schwarz-weiße Fotos, 1 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen
Über den Autor
Stephen C. Berkwitz is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Missouri State University. His research focuses on Buddhist Studies in Sri Lanka. At present he is preparing South Asian Buddhism: A Survey, also for publication with Routledge.Juliane Schober is Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies, Arizona State University. Her research focuses on Theravada Buddhism in Burma, particularly on ritual, sacred geography, and the veneration of icons in the modern state cult.Claudia Brown is Professor of Art History, Arizona State University. Her research interest is the History of Art with an emphasis in Chinese painting.
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