Ritualized Writing - Buddhist Practice and Scriptural Cultures in Ancient Japan

Informationen zum Autor Bryan D. Lowe is assistant professor of religion at Princeton University. Klappentext Takes readers into the fascinating world of Japanese Buddhist manuscript cultures. Using archival sources that have received scant attention in English, primarily documents from an eighth-century Japanese scriptorium and colophons from sutra manuscripts, Bryan D. Lowe uncovers the ways in which the transcription of Buddhist scripture was a highly ritualized endeavour. Zusammenfassung Takes readers into the fascinating world of Japanese Buddhist manuscript cultures. Using archival sources that have received scant attention in English! primarily documents from an eighth-century Japanese scriptorium and colophons from sutra manuscripts! Bryan D. Lowe uncovers the ways in which the transcription of Buddhist scripture was a highly ritualized endeavour.

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• Authors: Bryan D Lowe, Bryan D. Lowe
• Assisted by: Robert E Buswell (Editor), Robert E. Buswell (Editor)
• Publisher: University of hawaii press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2017
• EAN: 9780824859404
• ISBN: 978-0-8248-5940-4
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Kuroda Studies in East Asian B; Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism; Kuroda Studies in East Asian B; Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Japan, Asiatische Geschichte, Religion - World Religions, RELIGION / Buddhism / History, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, RELIGION / Buddhism / Sacred Writings