Miracles of Book and Body

preview-18
  • Miracles of Book and Body Book Detail

  • Author : Charlotte Eubanks
  • Release Date : 2011
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 288
  • ISBN 13 : 0520265610
  • File Size : 74,74 MB

Miracles of Book and Body by Charlotte Eubanks PDF Summary

Book Description: "This is an exciting exploration of the world of Buddhist attitudes towards religious texts, from Indian scriptures to Japanese medieval tales. Its emphasis on discursive strategies—how Buddhist texts function and what they expect of their readers/users (especially, the connection between books, their content, and their readers' bodies)—is a welcome new perspective."—Fabio Rambelli, author of Buddhist Materiality "Miracles of Book and Body is fluidly written and engaging. This book brings the reader to an awareness of the range and foci of medieval 'popular' readings of sutra literature, and Eubanks provides an important perspective to interpreting these narratives that is original and stimulating."—Thomas W. Hare, author of Zeami: Performance Notes "Charlotte Eubanks' sophisticated, insightful and readable study of the physicalities of sutra texts and sutra recitation makes sense of some of the strangest phenomena in medieval Japan. By disentangling the literal and metaphorical meanings in Buddhist setsuwa, Eubanks explains such things as how memorizing a text is an embodiment thereof, how texts can become sentient beings, and why the scroll is an appropriate format for recording dharma. Her work is both important and engaging."—Margaret H. Childs, University of Kansas "Drawing on an impressive range of Mahayana scriptures and medieval Japanese didactic tales, Eubanks unpacks recurrent tropes correlating text and flesh to reveal surprising connections among the literary, material, and ritual dimensions of Buddhist textual culture. Elegantly written and theoretically astute, this volume will be welcomed not only by specialists in Buddhist literature but also by readers interested in broader issues of text-based religious practice."—Jacqueline Stone, author of Original Enlightenment and the Transformation of Medieval Japanese Buddhism

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Miracles of Book and Body books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Miracles of Book and Body

Miracles of Book and Body

File Size : 66,66 MB
Total View : 7214 Views
DOWNLOAD

"This is an exciting exploration of the world of Buddhist attitudes towards religious texts, from Indian scriptures to Japanese medieval tales. Its emphasis on

The Art of Persistence

The Art of Persistence

File Size : 35,35 MB
Total View : 5182 Views
DOWNLOAD

The Art of Persistence examines the relations between art and politics in transwar Japan, exploring these via a microhistory of the artist, memoirist, and activ

The Impossible Jew

The Impossible Jew

File Size : 28,28 MB
Total View : 1444 Views
DOWNLOAD

He destroys in order to create. In a sweeping critique of the field, Benjamin Schreier resituates Jewish Studies in order to make room for a critical study of i

The Shamanic Bones of Zen

The Shamanic Bones of Zen

File Size : 12,12 MB
Total View : 6057 Views
DOWNLOAD

Conceived at the crossroads of Buddhism and indigenous earth-based practice, The Shamanic Bones of Zen explores the deep human traditions of transformation that

Sound Affects

Sound Affects

File Size : 89,89 MB
Total View : 2209 Views
DOWNLOAD

Sound Affects: A User's Guide is a collection of sonically-charged concepts ranging from those felt, 'heard' and repeated (silence, the oriental riff, shuffle),