The dynamic spread of Buddhist print culture : mapping Buddhist book roads in China and its neighbors /
This comprehensive study explores the dynamic spread of Buddhist print culture in China and its Asian neighbors. It examines a vast selection of Buddhist printed images and texts, not merely as static cultural relics, but holistically within multicultural contexts related to other cultural products,...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2024].
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| Series: | Crossroads - history of interactions across the silk routes ;
v. 7. |
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| Summary: | This comprehensive study explores the dynamic spread of Buddhist print culture in China and its Asian neighbors. It examines a vast selection of Buddhist printed images and texts, not merely as static cultural relics, but holistically within multicultural contexts related to other cultural products, and as objects on the move, transmitted across a sprawling web of transnational networks, "Buddhist Book Roads." The author applies interdisciplinary and network approaches developed in art history, religious studies, digital humanities and the history of the print and book culture to shed new light on Buddhist print culture from visual, textual, social and religious perspectives. |
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| Physical Description: | lxv, 1003 pages : chiefly color illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [865]-967) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9004680810 9789004680814 |