Receptacle of the Sacred
Title | Receptacle of the Sacred PDF eBook |
Author | Jinah Kim |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 406 |
Release | 2013-04-12 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0520273869 |
In considering medieval illustrated Buddhist manuscripts as sacred objects of cultic innovation, Receptacle of the Sacred 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.
Arcana cœlestia: or Heavenly mysteries contained in the sacred Scriptures, or Word of the Lord, manifested and laid open [an exposition of Genesis and Exodus]. Now first tr. by a society of gentlemen [or rather by J. Clowes]. [With] Index. [With] Index
Title | Arcana cœlestia: or Heavenly mysteries contained in the sacred Scriptures, or Word of the Lord, manifested and laid open [an exposition of Genesis and Exodus]. Now first tr. by a society of gentlemen [or rather by J. Clowes]. [With] Index. [With] Index PDF eBook |
Author | Emanuel Swedenborg |
Publisher | |
Pages | 424 |
Release | 1863 |
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The Heavenly Arcana Disclosed which are in the Sacred Scripture Or Word of the Lord
Title | The Heavenly Arcana Disclosed which are in the Sacred Scripture Or Word of the Lord PDF eBook |
Author | Emanuel Swedenborg |
Publisher | |
Pages | 386 |
Release | 1893 |
Genre | New Jerusalem Church |
ISBN |
A Course of Lectures on the Doctrines of the New Jerusalem Church
Title | A Course of Lectures on the Doctrines of the New Jerusalem Church PDF eBook |
Author | Benjamin Fiske Barrett |
Publisher | |
Pages | 468 |
Release | 1842 |
Genre | New Jerusalem Church |
ISBN |
The Oxford Handbook of Buddhist Practice
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Buddhist Practice PDF eBook |
Author | Kevin Trainor |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 689 |
Release | 2022 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0190632925 |
"This Handbook provides a state-of-the-art exploration of several key dynamics in current studies of the Buddhist tradition with a focus on practice. Embodiment, materiality, emotion, and gender shape the way most Buddhists engage with their traditions, in contrast to popular representations of Buddhism as spiritual, disembodied, and largely devoid of ritual. This volume highlights how practice often represents a fluid, dynamic, and strategic means of defining identity and negotiating the challenges of everyday life. Essays explore the transformational aims of practices that require practitioners to move, gesture, and emote in prescribed ways, including the ways that scholars' own embodied practices are integral to their research methodology. The chapters are written by acknowledged experts in their respective subject areas and taken together offer an overview of current thinking in the field. The volume is of particular value to scholars who seek an orientation to current perspectives on important conceptual, theoretical, and methodological concerns that are shaping the field in areas outside their primary expertise. The inclusion of substantial, up-to-date bibliographies also makes the volume an important guide to current scholarship"--
Changing Religious Worlds
Title | Changing Religious Worlds PDF eBook |
Author | Bryan Rennie |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 2001-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780791447307 |
Assesses Mircea Eliade's contribution to the contemporary understanding of religion and the academic study of religion.
Southern Quarterly Review
Title | Southern Quarterly Review PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Kimball Whitaker |
Publisher | |
Pages | 552 |
Release | 1843 |
Genre | |
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