Buddhist Manuscript Cultures in Premodern Japan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4299780 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bryan D Lowe (Vanderbilt University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Pages | 287-301 |
| Publication date | 2014-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religion Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1749-8171 • E-ISSN: 1749-8171 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/rec3.12132 |
| OpenAlex | W1767984882 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 24 |
Recent discoveries and scholarship on Japanese Buddhist manuscripts have illuminated new areas of research and raised previously unexplored questions in Buddhist studies and East Asian religions. This article introduces some of the recent finds and approaches to these materials. It focuses on three sets of sources: scriptorium documents from an imperial treasure house known as the Shōsōin, canonical manuscripts (issaikyō) based on texts translated or composed in China, and sacred works (shōgyō) produced and collected by Japanese monks for use in temple life. In addition to surveying these sources and the most influential secondary literature on them, this article proposes methodological alternatives to philological studies by focusing on what I call ritual, curricular, social, and material approaches
Archaeology · Art · Buddhism · China · Literature · Philology · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · Treasure · Anthropology · Chinese history and philosophy · Classics · Gender Studies · History · Japanese History and Culture
Libraries in the Manuscript Age
Following medieval Chinese Buddhist precedents with ritual practices using exoteric Buddhist scriptures ( kengyō 顕経) from Amanosan Kongōji 天野山金剛寺 and Shinpukuji 真福寺in medieval Japan
Tari̇hsel Süreç İçeri̇si̇nde Budi̇zm’i̇n Japon Sanatina Etki̇si̇
On the Authorship of the *Śūraṃgama-sūtra Ascribed to *Pāramiti
Apocryphal Chinese books in the Buddhist canon at Matsuo Shintō shrine
Alternative Lineages
The Transmission and Textual Transformation of the Shisong lü 十誦律 from the 6th to 13th Centuries
Buddhist Materiality
Buddhist Manuscript Cultures
Conceiving the Indian Buddhist Patriarchs in China
The Scripture on the Ten Kings and the Making of Purgatory in Medieval Chinese Buddhism
Manuscripts and Travellers
The Impact of Buddhism on Chinese Material Culture
Hokkeji and the Reemergence of Female Monastic Orders in Premodern Japan
Pieces in a Puzzle
Politics of Piety
Contingent and Contested
Buddhist Debate and the Production and Transmission of Shōgyō in Medieval Japan
Beyond Big Events, Their Heroes, the Nation, and the Sect
Constructing Histories, Thinking Ritual Gatherings, and Rereading “Native” Religion
The Discipline of Writing Scribes and Purity in Eighth-Century Japan
Hiraizumi
Revisiting the phrase “sa prthivīpradeśaś caityabhūto bhavet” and the Mahāyāna cult of the book
The Death of Sacred Texts. Ritual Disposal and Renovation of Texts in World Religions
Buddhist Manuscript Cultures
Ritual
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,7 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |