Ritualized Writing - Buddhist Practice and Scriptural Cultures in Ancient Japan

About the author

Bryan D. Lowe is assistant professor of religion at Princeton University.

Summary

Takes readers into the world of Japanese Buddhist manuscript cultures. Using sources that have received scant attention in English, primarily documents from an eighth-century Japanese scriptorium and colophons from sutra manuscripts, Bryan Lowe uncovers the ways in which the transcription of Buddhist scripture was a highly ritualized endeavour.

Product details

• Authors: Robert E. Buswell Jr, 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: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2022
• EAN: 9780824895471
• ISBN: 978-0-8248-9547-1
• No. of pages: 292
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 226 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Series: 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