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Diamond Sutra Narratives - Textual Production and Lay Religiosity in Medieval China (Hardcover)
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Diamond Sutra Narratives - Textual Production and Lay Religiosity in Medieval China (Hardcover)
Series: Sinica Leidensia, 144
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Contextualizing the sutra within a milieu of intense religious and
cultural experimentation, this volume unravels the sudden rise of
Diamond Sutra devotion in the Tang dynasty against the backdrop of
a range of social, political, and literary activities. Through the
translation and exploration of a substantial body of narratives
extolling the efficacy of the sutra, it explores the complex social
history of lay Buddhism by focusing on how the laity might have
conceived of the sutra and devoted themselves to it. Corroborated
by various sources, it reveals the cult's effect on medieval
Chinese religiosity in the activities of an empowered laity, who
modified and produced parasutraic texts, prompting the monastic
establishment to accommodate to the changes they brought about.
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