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Zusatztext "This book is of great value for graduate courses on Buddhist material culture, art historical methodology, or esoteric Buddhism." Informationen zum Autor Jinah Kim is Assistant Professor of History of Art & Architecture at Harvard University. Klappentext "This is an important work on the well known but little-studied Buddhist manuscripts created in eastern India during the last centuries of major Buddhist activity there. Her use of contemporary evidence in Nepal wonderfully grounds historical imagining of the cultic practices associated with books. Simply put! Jinah Kim has produced a scholarly jewel." -Dr. Janice Leoshko! Professor at the University of Texas at Austin "A dazzling demonstration of the centrality of the Buddhist book cult in medieval India and Nepal. Illuminated books come alive in the hands of their scribes! painters! and donors! and for the reader as well. The most important work on late Esoteric Buddhism and its relationship to Mahayana and society at large since Ronald M. Davidson's 2002 Indian Esoteric Buddhism." -Rob Linrothe! Associate Professor at Northwestern University Zusammenfassung In considering medieval illustrated Buddhist manuscripts as sacred objects of cultic innovation, this book explores how and why South Asian Buddhist book-cult has survived for almost two millennia to present. It also shows how human agency was critical in perpetuating and intensifying the potency of a manuscript as a sacred object throughout time. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgement List of Figures List of Diagrams Introduction. Text! Image and the book Chapter 1. Buddhist books and their cultic use Chapter 2. Innovations of the Medieval Buddhist Book-cult Chapter 3. Representing the Perfect Wisdom! Embodying the Holy Sties Chapter 4. The Visual World of Buddhist Book Illustrations Chapter 5. Esoteric Buddhism and the Illustrated Manuscripts Chapter 6. Social History of the Buddhist book-cult Chapter 7. Epilogue: Invoking a goddess in a book Bibliography Index ...
