Buddhist manuscript cultures: knowledge, ritual, and art / ed. by S.C.Berkwitz, J.Schober, C.Brown. - Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2009. - xviii, 211 p.: ill. - Bibliogr.: p.189-205. - Ind.: p.206-211. - ISBN 978-0-415-77616-5  Место хранения:   033 | Бурятский научный центр | Улан-Удэ | Центральная научная библиотека

Оглавление / Contents

List of figures ................................................ xi Acknowledgements .............................................. xiv List of contributors .......................................... xvi 1 Introduction: rethinking Buddhist manuscript cultures ........ 1 STEPHEN С. BERKWITZ, JULIANE SCHOBER, AND CLAUDIA BROWN PART I Ideologies .............................................. 17 2 Why did the Gandhāran Buddhists bury their manuscripts? ..... 19 RICHARD SALOMON 3 Materiality and merit in Sri Lankan Buddhist manuscripts .... 35 STEPHEN С. BERKWITZ PART II Production ............................................. 51 4 Redaction, recitation, and writing: transmission of the Buddha's teaching in India in the early period .............. 53 PETER SKILLING 5 Diverse aspects of the Mongolian Buddhist manuscript culture and realms of its influence ......................... 76 VESNA A. WALLACE 6 From words to books: Indian Buddhist manuscripts in the first millennium CE ......................................... 95 JENS-UWE HARTMANN PART III Curating ............................................. 107 7 Between Zhongfeng Mingben and Zhao Mengfu: Chan letters in their manuscript context ................................ 109 NATASHA HELLER 8 Two Buddhist librarians: the proximate mechanisms of Northern Thai Buddhist history ............................. 124 JUSTIN MCDANIEL 9 Emending perfection: prescript, postscript, and practice in Newar Buddhist manuscript culture ....................... 140 CHRISTOPH EMMRICH PART IV Art and architecture .................................. 157 10 Flowers for the Dhamma: painted Buddhist palm leaf manuscript covers (kamba) of Sri Lanka ..................... 159 BILINDA DEVAGE NANDADEVA 11 From text to image: copying as Buddhist practice in late fourteenth century Sukhothai ............................... 172 M.L. PATTARATORN CHIRAPRAVATI Bibliography .................................................. 189 Index ......................................................... 206