Buddhist manuscript cultures : knowledge, ritual, and art /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
2009.
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| Series: | Routledge critical studies in Buddhism ;
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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.