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...
Published in: | Numen |
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
[2020]
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Numen
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Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Dunhuang manuscripts
/ Materiality
/ Ritual
/ Scribe
/ Reader
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IxTheo Classification: | BL Buddhism KBM Asia |
Further subjects: | 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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Summary: | 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 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Numen
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685276-12341570 |