Buddhist Manuscript Cultures

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Buddhist Manuscript Cultures

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Author : Stephen C. Berkwitz
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2009-01-13

Buddhist Manuscript Cultures written by Stephen C. Berkwitz and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-13 with History categories.

Buddhist Manuscript Cultures explores how religious and cultural practices in premodern 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. Contributions are by reputed scholars in Buddhist Studies and represent diverse disciplinary approaches from religious studies, art history, anthropology, and history.

Dunhuang Manuscript Culture

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Author : Imre Galambos
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2020-12-07

Dunhuang Manuscript Culture written by Imre Galambos and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-07 with Literary Criticism categories.

“Dunhuang Manuscript Culture” explores the world of Chinese manuscripts from ninth-tenth century Dunhuang, an oasis city along the network of pre-modern routes known today collectively as the Silk Roads. The manuscripts have been discovered in 1900 in a sealed-off side-chamber of a Buddhist cave temple, where they had lain undisturbed for for almost nine hundred years. The discovery comprised tens of thousands of texts, written in over twenty different languages and scripts, including Chinese, Tibetan, Old Uighur, Khotanese, Sogdian and Sanskrit. This study centres around four groups of manuscripts from the mid-ninth to the late tenth centuries, a period when the region was an independent kingdom ruled by local families. The central argument is that the manuscripts attest to the unique cultural diversity of the region during this period, exhibiting—alongside obvious Chinese elements—the heavy influence of Central Asian cultures. As a result, it was much less ‘Chinese’ than commonly portrayed in modern scholarship. The book makes a contribution to the study of cultural and linguistic interaction along the Silk Roads.

Indic Manuscript Cultures Through The Ages

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Author : Vincenzo Vergiani
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2017-12-18

Indic Manuscript Cultures Through The Ages written by Vincenzo Vergiani and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-18 with Literary Criticism categories.

This collection of essays explores the history of the book in pre-modern South Asia looking at the production, circulation, fruition and preservation of manuscripts in different areas and across time. Edited by the team of the Cambridge-based Sanskrit Manuscripts Project and including contributions of the researchers who collaborated with it, it covers a wide range of topics related to South Asian manuscript culture: from the material dimension (palaeography, layout, decoration) and the complicated interactions of manuscripts with printing in late medieval Tibet and in modern Tamil Nadu, to reading, writing, editing and educational practices, from manuscripts as sources for the study of religious, literary and intellectual traditions, to the creation of collections in medieval India and Cambodia (one major centre of the so-called Sanskrit cosmopolis), and the formation of the Cambridge collections in the colonial period. The contributions reflect the variety of idioms, literary genres, religious movements, and social actors (intellectuals, scribes, patrons) of ancient South Asia, as well as the variety of approaches, interests and specialisms of the authors, and their impassionate engagement with manuscripts.

Manuscript Cultures Mapping The Field

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Author : Jörg Quenzer
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2014-12-12

Manuscript Cultures Mapping The Field written by Jörg Quenzer and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-12 with Philosophy categories.

Script and writing were among the most important inventions in human history, and until the invention of printing, the handwritten book was the primary medium of literary and cultural transmission. Although the study of manuscripts is already quite advanced for many regions of the world, no unified discipline of ‘manuscript studies’ has yet evolved which is capable of treating handwritten books from East Asia, India and the Islamic world equally alongside the European manuscript tradition. This book, which aims to begin the interdisciplinary dialogue needed to arrive at a truly systematic and comparative approach to manuscript cultures worldwide, brings together papers by leading researchers concerned with material, philological and cultural aspects of different manuscript traditions.

Manuscripts And Travellers

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Author : Sam van Schaik
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2011-11-30

Manuscripts And Travellers written by Sam van Schaik and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-30 with Philosophy categories.

This study is based on a manuscript which was carried by a Chinese monk through the monasteries of the Hexi corridor, as part of his pilgrimage from Wutaishan to India. The manuscript has been created as a composite object from three separate documents, with Chinese and Tibetan texts on them. Included is a series of Tibetan letters of introduction addressed to the heads of monasteries along the route, functioning as a passport when passing through the region. The manuscript dates to the late 960s, coinciding with the large pilgrimage movement during the reign of Emperor Taizu of the Northern Song recorded in transmitted sources. Therefore, it is very likely that this is a unique contemporary testimony of the movement, of which our pilgrim was also part. Complementing extant historical sources, the manuscript provides evidence for the high degree of ethnic, cultural and linguistic diversity in Western China during this period.

New Insights Into Lao Buddhist Manuscript Culture

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016

New Insights Into Lao Buddhist Manuscript Culture written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with categories.

International Journal Of Buddhist Thought Culture

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005

International Journal Of Buddhist Thought Culture written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Buddhism categories.

Chinese Calligraphy And Early Buddhist Manuscripts

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Author : Chung-Hui Tsui
language : en
Publisher: Indica Et Buddhica
Release Date : 2020-12-31

Chinese Calligraphy And Early Buddhist Manuscripts written by Chung-Hui Tsui and has been published by Indica Et Buddhica this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-31 with Religion categories.

Abstract The earliest extant Chinese Buddhist manuscript the Buddhasaṅgīti-sūtra was excavated at Toyuq in Turfan. It is dated the 6th year of the Yuankang era (296 CE) during the Western Jin Dynasty (266-316 CE). This sūtra is a copy by Zhu Fashou, one of Dharmarakṣa's monk disciples, a distinctive scribe on the translation team. Both historical documentation and archæological findings of the period when Buddhism was initially transmitted into China demonstrate that the copying of Buddhist texts by monk scribes from Central Asia played a key role. The work of these scribes also enhanced the creation of diverse and vigorous calligraphic styles from the 3rd to 5th centuries. However, before the 20th century, early Buddhist scribes or foreign scribes were little known in the history of Chinese calligraphy, or in official records. The discovery of the Dunhuang and Turfan manuscripts in the early 20th century provided scholars with new material with which to examine early Buddhist scribal culture. This monograph considers the culture of early sacred writing, and the role of early Buddhist scribes, scribal workshops, scriptural calligraphy, and the expertise of these early scribes, for the history of Chinese calligraphers and calligraphy.

Language Orthography And Buddhist Manuscript Culture Of The Tai Nuea An Apocryphal J Taka Text In Mueang Sing Laos

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Author : David Wharton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018

Language Orthography And Buddhist Manuscript Culture Of The Tai Nuea An Apocryphal J Taka Text In Mueang Sing Laos written by David Wharton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.

Buddhist Traditions And Culture Of The Kathmandu Valley Nepal

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Author : Karuṇākara Vaidya
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986

Buddhist Traditions And Culture Of The Kathmandu Valley Nepal written by Karuṇākara Vaidya and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Buddhism categories.