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Podcast: New Books in Buddhist Studies
Episode: Charlotte Eubanks, âMiracles of Book and Body: Buddhist Textual Culture and Medieval Japan (U of California Press, 2011)
Description: In Miracles of Book and Body: Buddhist Textual Culture and Medieval Japan (University of California Press, 2011), Charlotte Eubanks examines the relationship between MahĂÂyĂÂna Buddhist sĂ
«tras and the human body, using Japanese tale literature (setsuwa) as a lens through which to understand this particular aspect of Buddhist textual culture and the way in which text and body are not as separate as we usually assume. Two of the questions she wants to answer are âWhat do sĂ
«tras want?â and âWhat do sĂ
«tras get?â She examines Buddhist scriptures of continental origin to answer the former, while she turns to Japanese...