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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.

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.

List of figures
xi
Acknowledgements xiv
List of contributors
xvi
1 Introduction: rethinking Buddhist manuscript cultures
1(16)
Stephen C. Berkwitz
Juliane Schober
Claudia Brown
PART I Ideologies
17(34)
2 Why did the Gandharan Buddhists bury their manuscripts?
19(16)
Richard Salomon
3 Materiality and merit in Sri Lankan Buddhist manuscripts
35(16)
Stephen C. Berkwitz
PART II Production
51(56)
4 Redaction, recitation, and writing: transmission of the Buddha's teaching in India in the early period
53(23)
Peter Skilling
5 Diverse aspects of the Mongolian Buddhist manuscript culture and realms of its influence
76(19)
Vesna A. Wallace
6 From words to books: Indian Buddhist manuscripts in the first millennium CE
95(12)
Jens-Uwe Hartmann
PART III Curating
107(50)
7 Between Zhongfeng Mingben and Zhao Mengfu: Chan letters in their manuscript context
109(15)
Natasha Heller
8 Two Buddhist librarians: the proximate mechanisms of Northern Thai Buddhist history
124(16)
Justin Mcdaniel
9 Emending perfection: prescript, postscript, and practice in Newar Buddhist manuscript culture
140(17)
Christoph Emmrich
PART IV Art and architecture
157(32)
10 Flowers for the Dhamma: painted Buddhist palm leaf manuscript covers (kamba) of Sri Lanka
159(13)
Bilinda Devage Nandadeva
11 From text to image: copying as Buddhist practice in late fourteenth century Sukhothai
172(17)
M.L. Pattaratorn Chirapravati
Bibliography 189(17)
Index 206
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.
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