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The Body Incantatory : Spells and the Ritual Imagination in Medieval Chinese Buddhism.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Sheng Yen Series in Chinese Buddhist StudiesPublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (396 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780231537780
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Body IncantatoryDDC classification:
  • 294.30951
LOC classification:
  • BQ5535 -- .C67 2014eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface: The Body Incantatory -- Thanks -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Dharanis and the Study of Buddhist Spells -- 1. Scripture, Relic, Talisman, Spell -- 2. Amulets of the Incantation of Wish Fulfillment -- 3. Dust, Shadow, and the Incantation of Glory -- 4. Mystic Store and Wizard's Basket -- Coda: Material Incantations and the Study of Medieval Chinese Buddhism -- Appendix 1. Suiqiu Amulets Discovered in China -- Appendix 2. Stein no. 4690: Four Spells -- Notes -- Glossary -- Sources -- Index.
Summary: The Body Incantatory reveals the histories and logics of practice of deeply embodied forms of Buddhist ritual. Paul Copp vividly captures the diversity of Buddhist practice among medieval monks, ritual healers, and other individuals lost to history, offering a corrective to accounts that have overemphasized elite, canonical materials.
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Intro -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface: The Body Incantatory -- Thanks -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Dharanis and the Study of Buddhist Spells -- 1. Scripture, Relic, Talisman, Spell -- 2. Amulets of the Incantation of Wish Fulfillment -- 3. Dust, Shadow, and the Incantation of Glory -- 4. Mystic Store and Wizard's Basket -- Coda: Material Incantations and the Study of Medieval Chinese Buddhism -- Appendix 1. Suiqiu Amulets Discovered in China -- Appendix 2. Stein no. 4690: Four Spells -- Notes -- Glossary -- Sources -- Index.

The Body Incantatory reveals the histories and logics of practice of deeply embodied forms of Buddhist ritual. Paul Copp vividly captures the diversity of Buddhist practice among medieval monks, ritual healers, and other individuals lost to history, offering a corrective to accounts that have overemphasized elite, canonical materials.

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