Inscribing the Corpus: Scribal and Ritual Practice in the Material Culture of Dunhuang
Qualities of the written sign impact the process of parsing a text, of making it accessible for vision, contemplation, recitation, and memory. In this article, I approach the manuscript as a visual field ordered by the configuration, combination, and differentiation of marks. This approach considers...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Brill
[2020]
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Numen
Année: 2020, Volume: 67, Numéro: 2/3, Pages: 113-137 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Dunhuang-Handschriften
/ Matérialité
/ Rituel
/ Scribe
/ Lecteur
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| RelBib Classification: | BL Bouddhisme KBM Asie |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Tibetan Buddhism
B Art History B Buddhism B manuscript culture B ritual writing B esoteric drawings B scribal practice B Dunhuang |
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Volltext (Verlag) Volltext (doi) |
| Résumé: | Qualities of the written sign impact the process of parsing a text, of making it accessible for vision, contemplation, recitation, and memory. In this article, I approach the manuscript as a visual field ordered by the configuration, combination, and differentiation of marks. This approach considers the particular challenges and potentialities that the space of the manuscript presents to a scribe as well as to a reader and how this blurs the boundaries between text and image. Through a case study of a Tibetan ritual manual, I illuminate the act of inscription as a technology with material, ritual, mnemonic, and pedagogical applications. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5276 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Numen
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685276-12341570 |