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Buddhist Manuscript Cultures: Knowledge, Ritual, And Buddhist Manuscript Cultures Buddhist Manuscript Cultures explores how religious and cultural practices in pre- modern Asia were shaped by literary and artistic traditions as well as by Buddhist material culture. This study of Buddhist texts focuses on the significance of their material forms rather than their doctrinal contents and examines how and why they were made. Collectively, the book offers cross-cultural and comparative insights into the transmission of Buddhist knowledge and the use of texts and images as ritual objects in the artistic and aesthetic traditions of Buddhist cultures. Drawing on case studies from India, Gandhara, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Mongolia, China, and Nepal, the chapters included investigate the range of interests and values associated with producing and using written texts and the roles manuscripts and images play in the transmission of Buddhist texts and in fostering devotion among Buddhist communities. Contributions are by reputed scholars in Buddhist Studies and represent diverse disciplinary approaches from religious studies, art history, anthropology, and history. This book will be of interest to scholars and students working in these fields. Stephen C. Berkwitz is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Missouri State University. His research focuses on Buddhist Studies in Sri Lanka. At present, he is preparing South Asian Buddhism: A Survey, also for publication with Routledge. Juliane Schober is Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies, Arizona State University. Her research focuses on Theravada Buddhism in Burma, particularly on ritual, sacred geography, and the veneration of icons in the modern state cult. Claudia Brown is Professor of Art History, Arizona State University. Her research interest is the History of Art with an emphasis in Chinese painting. Routledge critical studies in Buddhism Edited by Stephen C. Berkwitz Missouri State University, USA Founding Editors: Charles S. Prebish Utah State University, USA Damien Keown Goldsmith’s College, London University, UK Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism is a comprehensive study of the Buddhist tradition. The series explores this complex and extensive tradition from a variety of perspectives, using a range of different methodologies. The series is diverse in its focus, including his- torical, philological, cultural, and sociological investigations into the manifold features and expressions of Buddhism worldwide. It also presents works of constructive and reflective analysis, including the role of Buddhist thought and scholarship in a contemporary, critical context and in the light of current social issues. The series is expansive and imaginative in scope, spanning more than two and a half millennia of Buddhist history. It is receptive to all research works that are of significance and interest to the broader field of Buddhist Studies. Editorial Advisory Board: James A. Benn, McMaster University, Canada; Jinhua Chen, The University of British Columbia, Canada; Rupert Gethin, University of Bristol, UK; Peter Harvey, University of Sunderland, UK; Sallie King, James Madison University, USA; Anne Klein, Rice Uni- versity, USA; Ulrich Pagel, School of Oriental and African Studies, UK; John Powers, Australian National University; Juliane Schober, Arizona State University, USA; Donald Swearer, Harvard University, USA; Vesna A. Wallace, University of California-Santa Barbara, USA; Paul Williams, University of Bristol, UK. A Survey of Vinaya Literature Women in the Footsteps of the Buddha Charles S. Prebish Struggle for liberation in the Therigatha The Reflexive Nature of Awareness Kathryn R. 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Berkwitz, Frances Garrett Juliane Schober and Claudia Brown The following titles are published in association with the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies The Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies conducts and promotes rigorous teaching and research into all forms of the Buddhist tradition. Early Buddhist Metaphysics The making of a philosophical tradition Noa Ronkin Mipham’s Dialectics and the Debates on Emptiness To be, not to be or neither Karma Phuntsho How Buddhism Began The conditioned genesis of the early teachings Richard F. Gombrich Buddhist Meditation An anthology of texts from the P¯ali Canon Sarah Shaw Remaking Buddhism for Medieval Nepal The fifteenth-century reformation of Newar Buddhism Will Tuladhar-Douglas Metaphor and Literalism in Buddhism The doctrinal history of Nirvana Soonil Hwang The Biographies of Rechungpa The evolution of a Tibetan hagiography Peter Alan Roberts The Origin of Buddhist Meditation Alexander Wynne Buddhist Manuscript Cultures Knowledge, ritual, and art Edited by Stephen C. Berkwitz, Juliane Schober, and Claudia Brown First published 2009 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 270 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016 RoutledgeisanimprintoftheTaylor&FrancisGroup, an informa business This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2008. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” © 2009 editorial
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