{"product_id":"miracles-of-book-and-body-charlotte-eubanks-9780520265615","title":"Miracles of Book and Body: Buddhist Textual Culture and Medieval Japan Volume 10","description":"\u003ci\u003eMiracles of Book and Body\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book to explore the intersection of two key genres of sacred literature in medieval Japan: sutras, or sacred Buddhist texts, and \u003ci\u003esetsuwa\u003c\/i\u003e, or \"explanatory tales,\" used in sermons and collected in written compilations. For most of East Asia, Buddhist sutras were written in classical Chinese and inaccessible to many devotees. How, then, did such devotees access these texts? Charlotte D. Eubanks argues that the medieval genre of \"explanatory tales\" illuminates the link between human body (devotee) and sacred text (sutra). Her highly original approach to understanding Buddhist textuality focuses on the sensual aspects of religious experience and also looks beyond Japan to explore pre-modern book history, practices of preaching, miracles of reading, and the Mahayana Buddhist \"cult of the book.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Charlotte Eubanks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520265610\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520265615\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.00d","brand":"Charlotte Eubanks","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44790043803903,"sku":"9780520265615","price":85.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3da04cbf-6404-480a-9e83-661cd0088a2a.jpg?v=1707287794","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/miracles-of-book-and-body-charlotte-eubanks-9780520265615","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}