Buddhist manuscript cultures
Subtitle: knowledge, ritual, and art
By: edited by Stephen C. Berkwitz, Juliane Schober, and Claudia Brown.
Contributors: Berkwitz, Stephen C., 1969-; Schober, Juliane.; Brown, Claudia, 1950-
Series: Routledge critical studies in Buddhism -- 52
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Abingdon; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9780415776165; 9780203884812
Subjects: Tripiṭaka -- Manuscripts -- History; Buddhism -- Sacred books -- History; Transmission of texts -- Asia -- History; Civilization, Buddhist
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : rethinking Buddhist manuscript cultures / Stephen C. Berkwitz, Juliane Schober, and Claudia Brown; title: Why did the Gandharan Buddhists bury their manuscripts? / Richard Salomon; title: Materiality and merit in Sri Lankan Buddhist manuscripts / Stephen C. Berkwitz; title: Redaction, recitation, and writing : transmission of the Buddha's teachings in India in the early period / Peter Skilling; title: Diverse aspects of the Mongolian Buddhist manuscript culture and realms of its influence / Vesna A. Wallace; title: From words to books : Indian Buddhist manuscripts in the first millennium CE. / Jens-Uwe Hartmann; title: 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; title: Emending perfection. prescript, postscript, and practice in Newar Buddhist manuscript culture / Christoph Emmrich; title: Flowers for the dhamma : painted Buddhist palm-leaf manuscript covers from Sri Lanka / Bilinda Devage Nandadeva; title: From text to image : copying as Buddhist practice in late fourteenth-century Sukhothai / M.L. Pattaratorn Chirapravati.