Buddhist Manuscript Cultures (eBook, ePUB)

Knowledge, Ritual, and Art
Redaktion: Berkwitz, Stephen C.; Brown, Claudia; Schober, Juliane

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Contributions are by reputed scholars in Buddhist Studies and represent diverse disciplinary approaches from religious studies, art history, anthropology, and history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134002412
• Artikelnr.: 38253895

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Rethinking Buddhist Manuscript Cultures Stephen C.
Berkwitz, Juliane Schober and Claudia Brown Part 1: Ideologies 2. Why Did
the Gandharan Buddhists Bury their Manuscripts? Richard Salomon 3.
Materiality and Merit in Sri Lankan Buddhist Manuscripts Stephen C.
Berkwitz Part 2: Production 4. Redaction, Recitation, and Writing:
Transmission of the Buddha's Teachings in India in the Early Period Peter
Skilling 5. Diverse Aspects of the Mongolian Buddhist Manuscript Culture
and Realms of Its Influence Vesna A. Wallace 6. From Words to Books: Indian
Buddhist Manuscripts in the First Millennium CE Jens-Uwe Hartmann Part 3:
Curating 7. Between Zhongfeng Mingben and Zhao Mengfu: Chan Letters in
their Manuscript Context Natasha Heller 8. Two Buddhist Librarians: The
Proximate Mechanisms for Northern Thai Buddhist History Justin McDaniel 9.
Emending Perfection. Prescript, Postscript and Practice in Newar Buddhist
Manuscript Culture Christoph Emmrich Part 4: Art and Architecture 10.
Flowers for the Dhamma: Painted Buddhist Palm-leaf Manuscript Covers from
Sri Lanka Bilinda Devage Nandadeva 11. From Text to Image: Copying as
Buddhist Practice in Late Fourteenth-Century Sukhothai M.L. Pattaratorn
Chirapravati