Diamond Sutra Narratives: Textual Production and Lay Religiosity in Medieval China by Ho

Diamond Sutra Narratives: Textual Production and Lay Religiosity in Medieval China (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004405486)

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Format: Hardcover
$174.00
$174.00
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Diamond Sutra Narratives: Textual Production and Lay Religiosity in Medieval China by Ho

Diamond Sutra Narratives: Textual Production and Lay Religiosity in Medieval China

$174.00
Diamond Sutra Narratives: Textual Production and Lay Religiosity in Medieval China by Ho

Diamond Sutra Narratives: Textual Production and Lay Religiosity in Medieval China

$174.00
Format: Hardcover
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Contextualizing the sutra within a milieu of intense religious and cultural experimentation, this volume unravels the sudden rise of Diamond Sutra devotion in the Tang dynasty against the backdrop of a range of social, political, and literary activities. Through the translation and exploration of a substantial body of narratives extolling the efficacy of the sutra, it explores the complex social history of lay Buddhism by focusing on how the laity might have conceived of the sutra and devoted themselves to it. Corroborated by various sources, it reveals the cult's effect on medieval Chinese religiosity in the activities of an empowered laity, who modified and produced parasutraic texts, prompting the monastic establishment to accommodate to the changes they brought about.

Author: Chiew Hui Ho
ISBN-10: 9004405488
ISBN-13: 9789004405486
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 07/18/2019
Pages: 534
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.95lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.10w x 1.30d
By Chiew Hui Ho
By Chiew Hui Ho
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Chiew Hui Ho, Ph.D. (2013), Stanford University, is Lecturer in East Asian Buddhism at the University of Sydney. He specializes in the social history of medieval Chinese Buddhism, with a focus on Buddhist narratives.

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