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

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In considering medieval illustrated Buddhist manuscripts as sacred objects of cultic innovation, Receptacle of the Sacred explores how and why the South Asian Buddhist book-cult has survived for almost two millennia to the present. A book manuscript" should be understood as a form of sacred space: a temple in microcosm

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South Asia Across the Disciplines

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ND3246 .K56 2013

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Berkeley : University of Calif : Berkeley : University of California Press., 2013

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xxv, 377 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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English

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9780520273863

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and use of illustrated manuscripts

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Statement of Responsibility

but also made it a suitable tool for the spiritual transformation of medieval Indian practitioners. Through a detailed historical analysis of Sanskrit colophons on patronage

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