Receptacle of the Sacred : Illustrated Manuscripts and the Buddhist Book Cult in South Asia

by Jinah Kim

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Format Hardback or Cased Book

Book Series South Asia Across the Disciplines

ISBN-10 0520273869

ISBN-13 9780520273863

Publisher University of California Press

Imprint University of California Press

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Apr 12th, 2013

Print length 432 Pages

Weight 892 grams

Dimensions 23.10 x 17.80 x 3.10 cms

Product Classification: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography Lettering & calligraphy

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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.

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