Primary sources and Asian pasts /

Primary sources and Asian pasts / / edited by Peter C. Bisschop and Elizabeth A. Cecil.

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This conference volume unites a wide range of scholars working in the fields of history, archaeology, religion, art, and philology in an effort to explore new perspectives and methods in the study of primary sources from premodern South and Southeast Asia. The contributions engage with primary sourc...

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Superior document:Beyond Boundaries ; 8
Funder:
European Research Council (ERC)
:
Cecil, Elizabeth A.
European Research Council (ERC)
HerausgeberIn:
Bisschop, Peter Christiaan, 1973-
Cecil, Elizabeth A.,
MitwirkendeR:
Amy Paris, Langenberg,
Bryan J., Cuevas,
Csaba, Dezső,
Elizabeth A., Cecil,
Emmanuel, Francis,
Hans T., Bakker,
James L., Fitzgerald,
Janice, Stargardt,
Laxshmi Rose, Greaves,
Max, Deeg,
Miriam T., Stark,
Peter C., Bisschop,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter,, [2020]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
2020
Language:English
Series:Beyond Boundaries
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 389 pages) :; illustrations (chiefly colour); digital file(s).
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Primary Sources and Asian Pasts: Beyond the Boundaries of the “Gupta Period”
  • Part I: Narrative Form and Literary Legacies
  • Why So Many ‘Other’ Voices in the ‘Brahmin’ Mahābhārata?
  • After the Mahābhārata: On the Portrayal of Vyāsa in the Skandapurāṇa
  • The “Best Abode of Virtue”: Sattra Represented on a Gupta-Period Frieze from Gaṛhwa,̄ Uttar Pradesh
  • The Skandapurāṇa and Bāṇa’s Harṣacarita
  • Part II: Political Landscapes and Regional Identity
  • Describing the Own Other: Chinese Buddhist Travelogues Between Literary Tropes and Educational Narratives
  • Imperial Languages and Public Writings in Tamil South India: A Bird’s-Eye View in the Very Longue Durée
  • Landscapes, Linkages, and Luminescence: First-Millennium CE Environmental and Social Change in Mainland Southeast Asia
  • Sri Ksetra, 3rd Century BCE to 6th Century CE: Indianization, Synergies, Creation
  • Part III: Religion, Ritual, and Empowerment
  • The Meaning of the Word ārya in Two Gupta-Period Inscriptions
  • Four Syllables for Slaying and Repelling: A Tibetan Vajrabhairava Practice from Recently Recovered Manuscripts of the “Lost” Book of Rwa (Rwa pod)
  • Love, Unknowing, and Female Filth: The Buddhist Discourse of Birth as a Vector of Social Change for Monastic Women in Premodern South Asia
  • A Natural Wonder: From Liṅga Mountain to Prosperous Lord at Vat Phu
  • Index

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