عنوان

Buddhist manuscript cultures: knowledge, ritual, and art

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

eng

Title Proper

Buddhist manuscript cultures: knowledge, ritual, and art

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Abingdon ; New York

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Routledge

Other Title Information

Routledge critical studies in Buddhism

Other Title Information

52

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Text of Note

edited by Stephen C. Berkwitz, Juliane Schober, and Claudia Brown

Text of Note

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

Entry Element

Sacred books History ، Buddhism

Entry Element

Asia -- History ، Transmission of texts

Entry Element

، Buddhist civilization

Class number

Relator Code

TI

AU Berkwitz, Stephen C 1969-

AU Schober, Juliane

AU Brown, Claudia 1950-

SE