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Receptacle of the sacred: illustrated manuscripts and the Buddhist book cult in South Asia
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0520273869 (hbk.)
9780520273863 (hbk.)
Author
Kim, Jinah 1976-
Title
Receptacle of the sacred : illustrated manuscripts and the Buddhist book cult in South Asia / [by] Jinah Kim
Publisher
Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, 2013
Physical desc.
xxv, 377 p. ; ill. (b&w), map ; 24 cm.
Series
South Asia across the disciplines
Note
CBL illustrations: p. [107], fig. 3-12 (InE 1463, f. 111r); p. [107], fig. 3-13 (InE 1463, f. 351v & f. 361r).
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-366) and index.
Contents
Introduction: text, image, and the book -- Pt. 1: The book. Buddhist books and their cultic use -- Innovations of the medieval Buddhist book cult -- Pt. 2: Text and image. Representing the perfection of wisdom, embodying the holy sites -- The visual world of Buddhist book illustrations -- Esoteric Buddhism and the illustrated manuscripts -- Pt. 3: The people. Social history of the Buddhist book cult -- Epilogue: invoking a goddess in a book.
Subject
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- InE 1463
Buddhist illumination of books and manuscripts -- South Asia -- History
Books -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism
Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- South Asia -- History
Buddhism
Sacred books
Buddhism -- South Asia -- Rituals -- History
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