An edition of Buddhist manuscript cultures (2008)

Buddhist manuscript cultures

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Buddhist manuscript cultures

knowledge, ritual, and art

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Routledge
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Buddhism Buddhist civilization Tripiṭaka Sacred books Manuscripts Transmission of texts History Buddhism, east asia Asia, social life and customs Religion and sociology Art and religion Buddhism, sacred books Civilization, oriental RELIGION Sacred Writings
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2011, Taylor & Francis Group
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Buddhist Manuscript Cultures: Knowledge, Ritual, and Art
2009, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Buddhist Manuscript Cultures
Buddhist Manuscript Cultures: Knowledge, Ritual, and Art
2009, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Buddhist Manuscript Cultures
Buddhist Manuscript Cultures: Knowledge, Ritual, and Art
2009, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Buddhist Manuscript Cultures
Buddhist Manuscript Cultures: Knowledge, Ritual, and Art
2009, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Buddhist Manuscript Cultures
Buddhist Manuscript Cultures: Knowledge, Ritual and Art
2008, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Buddhist manuscript cultures
Buddhist manuscript cultures: knowledge, ritual, and art
2008, Routledge
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Table of Contents

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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Abingdon, New York
Series
Routledge critical studies in Buddhism -- 52

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
294.3/82
Library of Congress
BQ1113 .B83 2008, BQ270, BQ1113 .B83 2009, BQ1113 .B83 2009eb, BQ1113.B83 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
211

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL16943443M
Internet Archive
buddhistmanuscri00berk
ISBN 13
9780415776165, 9780203884812
LCCN
2008026919
OCLC/WorldCat
313787565, 227275242
LibraryThing
8391155
Goodreads
5387996

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OL16923978W

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