{"product_id":"receptacle-of-the-sacred-jinah-kim-9780520273863","title":"Receptacle of the Sacred: Illustrated Manuscripts and the Buddhist Book Cult in South Asia","description":"In considering medieval illustrated Buddhist manuscripts as sacred objects of cultic innovation, \u003ci\u003eReceptacle of the Sacred\u003c\/i\u003e 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, not only imbued with divine presence but also layered with the memories of many generations of users. Jinah Kim argues that illustrating a manuscript with Buddhist imagery not only empowered it as a three-dimensional sacred object, 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, production, and use of illustrated manuscripts, she suggests that while Buddhism's disappearance in eastern India was a slow and gradual process, the Buddhist book-cult played an important role in sustaining its identity. In addition, by examining the physical traces left by later Nepalese users and the contemporary ritual use of the book in Nepal, Kim shows how human agency was critical in perpetuating and intensifying the potency of a manuscript as a sacred object throughout time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jinah Kim\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520273869\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520273863\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 04\/12\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.10d","brand":"Jinah Kim","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44056219287807,"sku":"9780520273863","price":85.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1b7cd867-1801-46e0-9c85-1bfe7a5252a4.jpg?v=1685040155","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/receptacle-of-the-sacred-jinah-kim-9780520273863","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}