Dead Letters: Mourning, Materiality, and Buddhist Commemoration in Medieval Japan

(Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Forfatter: Halle O'Neal



Forventes på lager: 23-03-2027

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In Dead Letters, Halle O’Neal explores how mourners in medieval Japan, haunted by love and loss, reused the epistles of the dead for copying sacred Buddhist scripture to create “letter sutras.” She pays careful attention to gender, embodiment, and invisibility to analyze these ephemera that offered both an outlet for grief and prayer for salvation.

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Forlag Harvard University, Asia Center
Forfatter Halle O'Neal
Type Bog
Format Hardback
Sprog Engelsk
Udgivelsesdato 23-03-2027
Første udgivelsesår 2027
Serie Harvard East Asian Monographs
Illustrationer 171 color photos, 1 fold-out chart
Originalsprog United States
Sideantal 440
Indbinding Hardback
Forlag Harvard University, Asia Center
Sideoplysninger 440 pages, 171 color photos, 1 fold-out chart
Mål 254 x 178
ISBN-13 / EAN-13 9780674307483