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In considering medieval illustrated Buddhist manuscripts as sacred objects of cultic innovation, <i>Receptacle of the Sacred</i> 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.

Полный вариант заголовка: «The Sacred Edict : Containing 16 maxims of the Emperor Kang-He / Amplified by his son, the Emperor Yoong-Ching ; together with a paraphrase on the whole, by a Mandarin ; translated from the Chinese original, and illustrated with notes, by the Rev, William Milne».

Полный вариант заголовка: «The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem respecting the Sacred Scripture : to which is appended, as illustrative of the subject, an explanation of the vision of White Horse, in the Revelation, chap.XIX / translated from the Latin of Emanuil Swedenborg ; originally published in the years 1763, and 1758».