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Word Embodied

Halle O'Neal

2018310 pagesabout 5–7 hours
2018
first published
  • 2018Harvard University, Asia Center · 310 pages · ENGISBN 9780674983861

"Examines the Japanese Buddhist jeweled pagoda mandala paintings, unpacking their revolutionary use of text as picture to show how this visual conflation mirrors important conceptual indivisibilities in medieval Japan. The textual pagoda projects the complex constellation of relics, reliquaries, scripture, and body in religious doctrine, praxis, and art"--Provided by publisher.

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