Miracles of book and body Buddhist textual culture and medieval Japan / [electronic resource] :
Charlotte Eubanks.
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.
- 1 online resource (xviii, 269 p.) : ill.
- Buddhisms ; 10 .
- Buddhisms. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: the cult of the book and the culture of text -- The ontology of sutras -- Locating setsuwa in performance -- Decomposing bodies, composing texts -- Textual transubstantiation and the place of memory -- Conclusion: on circumambulatory reading.
Buddhist literature, Japanese--History and criticism. Folk literature, Japanese--History and criticism. Books and reading--Religious aspects--Buddhism. Buddhism--History--Japan--1185-1600. Movement, Psychology of--Religious aspects--Buddhism. RELIGION / Buddhism / General